Journal of Aging Studies最新文献_第6页

Introduction: Age and gender in the humanities and social sciences: contemporary and historical perspectives dedicated to roberta maierhofer 引言：人文和社会科学中的年龄和性别：当代和历史的视角，致力于罗伯塔·梅尔霍费尔

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101360

Nicole Haring, Heike Hartung, Barbara Zach

引用次数: 0

Mapping female ageing in the twenty-first century in Deborah Moggach's last novels 在黛博拉·莫加奇的最后一部小说中描绘了21世纪的女性老龄化

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101351

Maricel Oró-Piqueras

{"title":"Mapping female ageing in the twenty-first century in Deborah Moggach's last novels","authors":"Maricel Oró-Piqueras","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101351","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101351","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite having published seventeen novels, a good number of short stories, and scripts since she started her writing career at the end of the 1970s, academic work on Moggach's literary career has mainly dealt with her novel <em>These Foolish Things</em> (2004) and its film version <em>The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel</em> (2011). This paper will focus on Moggach's last three novels in which the reader is guided by the voice of three women in their late sixties and seventies, namely <em>Something to Hide</em> (2015), <em>The Carer</em> (2019), and <em>The Black Dress</em> (2021). Following an already well-established body of criticism on representations of female ageing in fiction, this paper will argue that Moggach's last novels add nuance and richness to the representation of female ageing in the twenty-first century. With her particular use of narrative humour, Moggach allows the reader into the minds of female characters who, on the one hand, are still affected by Sontag's “double standard of ageing” (1972) which makes them feel utterly lonely, both at an individual and social level, whereas, on the other hand, they are hungry to establish meaningful relationships, especially in their path to old age and death. By fostering new romantic and sexual relationships, and probably without being aware of it, Moggach's female characters escape the pressures of agelessness and embrace their ageing bodies as well as those of their lovers, even if only for a while.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101351"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145007785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

“For ladies, 35 is check-out time”: An anocritical approach to the sitcom Girls5eva “对女人来说，35岁是退房时间”：对情景喜剧《都市女孩》的一种批评

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101326

Aagje Swinnen, Sara De Vuyst

引用次数: 0

A real old man: Aging masculinity and late-life creativity in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea 一个真正的老人：欧内斯特·海明威的《老人与海》中的老年男子气概和晚年创造力

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101356

Anita Wohlmann

{"title":"A real old man: Aging masculinity and late-life creativity in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea","authors":"Anita Wohlmann","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101356","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101356","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>There is surprisingly little age-critical research on Ernest Hemingway's <em>The Old Man and the Sea</em> (1952), even though the novella seems like an obvious choice for age studies. This article reviews foundational concepts and approaches in age studies on gender, performativity, creativity and space and brings them into dialog with <em>The Old Man and the Sea</em>. In the first part, the representation of older age and gender is emphasized through an analysis of the intersectional and performative nature of the old man's aging masculinity, including a focus on the aesthetic choices which contribute to the novella's semantic complexity. Building on this analysis, the second part centers on a discussion of late-life creativity and the spatiality of aging, suggesting that practices of “small c” creativity, such as self-talk, are spatially contingent and affect how the novel's hero, Santiago, performs his aging masculinity in different locales, namely in the village and at sea. The final part offers suggestions for further age-critical perspectives on the novella. Taken together, these approaches demonstrate the novella's continuing value and appeal for both academic research—especially age studies—and, more generally, for insight into what it means to age in a dignified way.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101356"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145007784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Sexual pleasure in older age: haptic visuality and female eroticism in three contemporary Spanish films 老年时期的性快感：三部当代西班牙电影中的触觉视觉与女性情色

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101347

Raquel Medina Bañón

{"title":"Sexual pleasure in older age: haptic visuality and female eroticism in three contemporary Spanish films","authors":"Raquel Medina Bañón","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101347","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101347","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article explores the representation of female sexuality in later life through the lens of three contemporary Spanish films: <em>La vida era eso</em> (2020), <em>Destello bravío</em> (2021), and <em>Mamacruz</em> (2023). Drawing from feminist aging studies, film theory, and concepts such as haptic visuality and clitoral sexuality, the study challenges the patriarchal, ageist, and phallocentric narratives that have long shaped cultural understandings of older women's erotic lives. Through close readings of these films, the article demonstrates how they subvert the dominant heteronormative gaze by foregrounding sensory pleasure, autoeroticism, and the reawakening of desire in older women. By rejecting decline-based models of aging and embracing affirmative aging, these cinematic works offer empowering portrayals of aging female bodies as sites of autonomy, transformation, and erotic potential. The analysis highlights how these films resist traditional representations of female aging and sexuality, creating new feminist haptic visual languages that center pleasure, agency, and the richness of life in older age.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101347"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145007790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

“To love, to create, to express, to live”- a typology of aging poems by older men “去爱，去创造，去表达，去生活”——这是老年人诗歌的一种类型学

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101343

Dovrat Harel , Liat Ayalon

引用次数: 0

Triangulation: Analyzing age, gender, and migration in a study of Bangladeshi migrants in London and in Monica Ali's novel Brick Lane (2003) 三角测量：分析年龄，性别和移民在伦敦和莫妮卡·阿里的小说砖巷孟加拉移民的研究（2003）

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101344

Heike Hartung, Rüdiger Kunow

引用次数: 0

Stories of home: Aging, intergenerational relations and dementia in Julia Martin's The Blackridge House: A memoir (2019) 朱莉娅·马丁的《布莱克里奇之家：回忆录》（2019）中的家庭故事：衰老、代际关系和痴呆

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101321

Óscar Ortega Montero

引用次数: 0

Older adults have valuable memories to share. Why don't we listen? 老年人有宝贵的回忆可以分享。我们为什么不听听呢？

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101322

Magdalen A. Balz , Kathrin Boerner

{"title":"Older adults have valuable memories to share. Why don't we listen?","authors":"Magdalen A. Balz , Kathrin Boerner","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101322","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101322","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Dual process categorization provides a valuable framework to describe cognitive aging. Mechanical skills, including complex attention, free memory recall, and speed of processing, often decline with age. In contrast, pragmatic skills can increase with age. Pragmatic intelligence reflects a person's life experience and contextual knowledge about the world. Although these are general trends among aging populations, there is also individual variability that may limit one's cognitive skills in either category.</div><div>Dual process categorization holds an important role in understanding cognitive aging. There are, however, several limitations of this model, including that it does not account for all aspects of cognitive processing in the human experience. Cognitive aging is likely more complex and includes intertwined mechanical and pragmatic skills. This literary analysis uses Lois Lowry's (1993) novel <em>The Giver</em> to explore the limitations of stratifying cognitive skills into two specific categories. The model does not explain real-life experiences where mechanical and pragmatic skills are dually activated or interact with one another. Generativity, for example, where one shares experiences and knowledge with younger generations or peers, utilizes mechanical and pragmatic cognitive skills. When older adults engage in generativity, they have potential to create new social opportunities for cognitive engagement, while sharing life lessons gained from lived experiences.</div><div>Despite these limitations, appreciating the nuanced processes of cognitive aging is an important consideration in gerontology. Baltes's (1993) dual categorization continues to provide a valuable framework for functional and social engagement by leveraging the strengths of older adults to utilize pragmatic cognitive skills. Intergenerational generativity is increasingly relevant to meet the diverse needs of today's aging population.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101322"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143738502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Painting as a form of Material Thinking: Promoting agency and expression for people living with dementia 绘画作为一种物质思维形式：促进痴呆症患者的代理和表达

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101328

Megan Wyatt, Paula Boddington

{"title":"Painting as a form of Material Thinking: Promoting agency and expression for people living with dementia","authors":"Megan Wyatt, Paula Boddington","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101328","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101328","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Awareness of the importance of understanding agency and selfhood for people living with dementia (PLWD) is growing. However, more needs to be done to incorporate such awareness into care practices. The importance of arts activities such as music, dance, and painting for enhancing quality of life for people living with dementia is widely recognised. However, research focuses on beneficial outcomes leaving us with scant knowledge relating to the creative processes that PLWD may experience. This paper explores the process of painting for PLWD and offers insight into how engagement with paint and painting materials can explain and embody agency. We argue that the process of painting itself exemplifies a form of embodied agency and cognition, a type of ‘Material Thinking’, hence helping to demonstrate the thinking skills that PLWD may retain even after a degree of decline of other capacities.</div><div>This study outlines how eight people living with dementia engaged with and experienced painting whilst working alongside an artist-researcher. Data was captured through semi-structured interviews, and observations captured by video recordings and field notes. Qualitative thematic analysis identified emergent themes, including Mark Making, Flexible Ideas, and Immersion, in relation to how painting engages the Material Thinking of people living with dementia. Our analysis demonstrates that the process of painting involves distinct forms of decision making, agency, and cognition, even in the absence of language. While having many other benefits, painting has great potential to be incorporated into care practices as a valid expression and recognition of cognition and agency.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101328"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143843273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0