This part-special edition of a high-quality interdisciplinary and international journal focused on the topic of “Gendered and Sexual Ageing in the History and Culture of Medicine”, part of the grant activities of Associate Professor Alison M. Downham Moore in the Australian Research Council Discovery project: Sexual Ageing in the History of Medicine.
The journal part-special edition is co-edited by A/Prof Moore and by Professor Sarah Lamb who is Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences Professor of Anthropology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University.
The published articles in it thus far include:
Catherine Rider (medieval English history), The medieval biological clock? Gendered reproductive aging in medieval western medicine
Branka Bogdan (modern East-European history), Vračare: Village wise women, reproductive health, and Yugoslavia’s early socialist modernisation project
Yiu Tung Suen (Chinese sociology), A qualitative study of older people living with HIV Hong Kong: Resilience through downward comparison amidst limited social support
Somi Ahn (American literary studies), “She looked ten years older”: Mechanisms of the new Woman’s marriage and premature aging under patriarchy in Sarah Grand’s The Heavenly Twins
Maria Concetta Lo Bosco (Medical anthropology), ‘Bodies that never grow’: How psychiatric understanding of autism spectrum disorders affects autistic people’s bodily experience of gender, ageing, and sexual desire
Hasan Cem Çelik (Middle-Eastern media studies), Representations of older people in Turkish prime-time TV series and Netflix original Turkish series: A comparative content analysis
Sexual Ageing in the History of Medicine 