Over the last decade there have been substantial advances in understanding the gendered dimensions of issues in the last few decades, and only recently, to masculinities and gender capital in later life. Contemporary discussions on cultural and gender capital are bringing relevant recognition and somehow unintentionally reveal that gender can matter to the same extent or even more in old age than in childhood or adulthood.
Interviews with 98 men aged 60 or more and other data collected in Slovenia with the Old Guys Erasmus+ project. The project results are in line with recent studies on gender capital and masculinities, and justified why older men should be seen, discussed and examined as individual agents who practice, perform and produce gender in later life too. They also explain why hegemonic masculinity is only one aspect of gendered life experiences and that different masculine realities stand alongside each other and are as necessary for men in later life as femininities are for women, particularly in contemporary societies, where both, aged men and women are seen and represented as de-gendered, un-gendered, even genderless ageing. Prior studies mostly dealt with the understanding of the lives of older women, while older men had been largely neglected or omitted. The focus on women facing disadvantages in socio-economic and marital status as shifted to men’s post-work and health (Source: Marta Gregorčič and Kaja Cizelj)
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