Langbein, Fuchs, and Cosgrove: “Introduction”
Desmond O'Neill: “Cultural Gerontology at the Intersection”
Section I. The Open Body: Resisting Biomedical Old Age
1. Robert Zwinjenberg: “Ageing, Biomedicine and the 'Risk of Life'”
2. Linda Shortt: “(Un)Fit Ageing: Hermann Kinder and the Ageing Male”
3. Aleida Assmann, “On Wisdom”
Section II. The Everyday: Locating Complexity in Old Age
4. Wendy Martin: “Ageing, Materiality, and Everyday Life”
5. Anne Fuchs, “Gender, the Politics of Looking, and the Narration of Old Age: Elizabeth
Strout's Empathetic Realism in Olive, Again”
6. Andrew King, “Reframing LGBT+ Ageing in Challenging Times”
Section III. The Language of Ageing: Critical Reading Across Disciplines
7. Ulla Kriebernegg, “Growing Old Amid Climate Change: Dystopian Narratives of
Vulnerability and Resistance”
8. Gillian Pye, “Well-Being and Happiness in Care Home Narratives”
9. Susan Pickard, “Gender, Sexuality, and The Double-Standard of Ageing in Later Life”
10. Moise Roche: “Race, Ethnicity, Culture, and Later Life: Problematic Categorisations and
Definitions”
Section IV. Intimacy and Experience: Alternative Analyses of Ageing
11. Dana Walrath: “Between Alice and the Eagle: Dementia Journeys and the Final Breath”
12. Ailbhe Smith, “Unseen, Unheard, Untouched: A View from the Interior”
13. Helen Doherty, “Heard and Seen: Distance and Proximity in Ken Wardrop's Cocooned
(2021)”
Section V. The Social Imaginary: History and the Public Face of Old Age
14. David Troyanski, “JR's Wrinkles of the City' Project: Representing Global Old Age,
2008-2015”
15. Mary Cosgrove, “The Meaning of Middle Age in Terézia Mora's Darius-Kopp Trilogy”
16. Julia Langbein, “Born Old: The 'Discovery' of a Lost Generation of Black American
Artists and their Challenge to Late Style”