Ageing the Body and the Gender Regime

<p>The current (postfeminist) gender order comprises a highly complex coexistence of old and new norms and expectations freedom and constraints within a neoliberal social order underpinned by individualism and involving a shift in gender performance by men and women. </p><p>Health illness and disease at different points in the life course can be used as a vehicle to illuminate structural and cultural inequalities that persist despite several decades of progressive reform in western countries. This collection brings together a number of key researchers both established and new to the field and based across North America Australia the UK and Europe and comprises both empirical and theoretical work. Drawing on a wide range of disciplinary fields including medical sociology medical anthropology nursing gender studies sociology of risk and age studies all authors use heath well-being illness and disease as a lens through which to explore the complexities and inequalities associated with late modernity. </p><p>This book will be of interest to scholars and students of age studies medical sociology and anthropology gender studies healthcare and nursing. </p>