The hegemony in masculinity

Most citations to "hegemonic masculinity" focus on gender ideals and men's attempts to justify domination. Few scholars have tested the theory that masculinity can be hegemonic in effect by gaining the overt consent of others to their domination. We specify this largely untested theory and use data from a pilot study of middle-age men for our demonstration of how to operationalize and recognize hegemony. We argue that scholars will find that effect at intersections of gender and other inequalities such as age. We show that, in their discussion of linked ideals of gender and age, three respondents mention domination of older men by younger men, and then both consent to that domination and accept personal responsibility for forestalling it through regimens of fitness, productivity, and health. We call for further research on the hegemony of masculinity via study of intersections of gender with such understudied inequities as age.Peer reviewe

Equal but different! Improving care for older LGBT+ adults

International human rights movements have improved the visibility and equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender+ (LGBT+) communities and their members. Health outcomes for LGBT+ people remain, however, worse than for their non-LGBT+ peers. Older LGBT+ people have experienced fewer positive changes, in part due to their lived experience of discrimination and their ongoing, unintentional invisibility in medical and social care. This article highlights the impacts of societal structure, health and social care on the lives of older LGBT+ people including physical and mental health, End of Life, Dementia, Housing and Care Settings, and a focus on the experiences of trans-people. We look at the existing improvements developed by LGBT+ communities (and their allies) and propose refreshing Person-Centred Care to improve inclusivity. Finally, we provide a framework for looking at the areas in which service challenges arise and suggest ways to address these to make health and social care services more ready to meet the needs of older LGBT+ people

Retirement migration and transnational grandparental support ::a Spanish case study

People who migrate in retirement often do so to join younger generations who have already migrated, and to help with grandchildren. But what about those retirees who migrate away from their families? Do they still provide grandparental support? To address this question, we examine retirement migrants who reside permanently in their new country, Spain. We find that they are aware of grandparental support expectations, and that their migration decision sometimes creates conflict with their offspring. At the same time, these retirement migrants reshape the meaning of grandparental support. Care considerations influence their destination and housing choices, and they continue to provide care. They feel that their familial relationships are now of a higher quality, despite the distance. At the same time, gender still emerges as a key dimension of grandparental support. The grandparenting of these retirement migrants challenges facile depictions of their motivations and of the equation of quantity and quality of contacts

The social creation of dependence, dependency ratios, and the elderly in the United States: A critical analysis

The paper addresses critically the issue of the age/dependency ratio in the United States. It is argued that embedded in this 'objective' statistic are struggles among specific social groups and societal contradictions which only come to the fore when its assumptions, calculations and useage are explored. Through an examination of the notion of social creation of dependency, the manner in which the dependency ratio is calculated and the relationship between the socio-economic structure and the creation of dependency, it is argued that the commonly employed statistics are based on assumptions that are supportive of existing dominant social relations. This phenomenon generates a reproduction of these relations and, at the same time, circumscribes the range of solutions to the problems.aged dependency dependency ratios

Retirement Migration in Europe: A Choice for a Better Life?

This article examines the impact of economic inequalities on the individual choices that North European retirees make when they migrate to Mediterranean countries. It considers a group of retired and early-retired migrants who live permanently in Spain and have limited economic resources. Through a qualitative methodology based on semi-structured interviews with retirement migrants as well as ethnographic observations and spontaneous conversations in the study site, we provide new sociological knowledge about the relations between retirement migration and the unequal risks of social exclusion that retirees must manage in Northern Europe. We find that for many of these migrants, moving represents a way of managing economic risks in retirement, improving their financial situation and status. At the same time, however, it introduces new vulnerabilities. The latter are all the more visible when unexpected political changes occur, such as the recent decision that the UK would leave the European Union (Brexit). </jats:p

Ageing and migration in a global context ::challenges for welfare states

This book brings together two major trends influencing economic and social life: population ageing on the one side, and migration on the other. Both have assumed increasing importance over the course of the 20th and into the 21st century. The book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on the challenges posed by the globalisation of the life course to welfare states’ old age and family policies. Through a variety of case studies, it covers a wide range of migration scenarios: those who migrate in later life; migrants from earlier years who age in place; and old people who hire migrant caregivers. It shows how both local and global economic inequalities intersect to frame interactions between ageing, migration, and family support. Across a wide variety of situations, it highlights that migration can both create risks for older people, but also serve as an answer to ageing-related social, economic, and health risks. The book explores tensions between national and global contexts in experiences of migration across the life course. As such this book offers a fascinating read to scholars, students, practitioners, and policy makers in the fields of aging, migration, life course, and population health