Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: intersections of ageing, gender and sexualities / Andrew King, Kathryn Almack and Rebecca L. Jones -- Part 1: Theoretical interpolations -- Introduction -- On the intersection of age, gender and sexualities in research on ageing / Toni Calasanti -- The queer subject of 'getting on' / Yvette Taylor -- Transgender ageing: community resistance and well-being in the life course / Vanessa Fabbre and Anna Siverskog -- Part 2: Representations -- Introduction -- Endogenous misery: menopause in medicine, literature and culture / Elizabeth Barry -- Representations of female ageing and sexuality in Penelope Lively's Moon Tiger, Angela Carter's Wise Children and Doris Lessing's 'The grandmothers' / Maricel Oro Piqueras -- 'Last-minute mothers': the construction of age and midlife motherhood in Denmark and Israel / Kinneret Lahad and Karen Hvidtfeldt Madsen -- Part 3: Dis/empowerments -- Introduction -- All change please: education, mobility and habitus dislocation / Jill Wilkens -- Insider or outsider? Issues of power and habitus during life history interviews with menopausal Iranian women / Elham Amini -- Sexual expression and sexual practices in long-term residential facilities for older people / Feliciano Villar -- Sexual and gender diversity, ageing and elder care in South Africa: voices and realities / Finn Reygan and Jamil Khan -- Part 4: Health and well-being -- Introduction -- Health and well-being of lesbians, gay men and bisexual people in later life: examining the commonalities and differences from quantitative research / Mark Hughes -- Questioning the sexy oldie: masculinity, age and sexuality in the Viagra era / Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto -- Intersecting identities of age, gender and sexual orientation in gay and bisexual men's narratives of prostate cancer / Julie Fish.