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Aging, place, and the life course of societies 老龄化、地域和社会的生命历程

IF 1.9 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2025-09-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101373

Graham D. Rowles , Malcolm Cutchin

This article presents a novel perspective from which to study aging and place. Adopting a Deweyan pragmatist perspective, aging and place are viewed through the lens of ongoing situations. Each situation is the dynamic expression of a co-constituted relationship between the aging person and place, a relationship shaped by processes of place integration in a quest for a sense of being in place. Habit and constant adaptation to changing circumstances are key elements of maintaining person/place harmony. In a world of constant uncertainty, change resulting in disharmony becomes problematic, provoking a need to act in response on an individual, community, or societal level. We illustrate how contemporary mega-trends, including accelerating technological advance (especially artificial intelligence), climate change, and evolving 21st century neoliberal and populist political economies, threaten the places where older adults reside as they shape the life course of societies, with the potential for a dystopian future. The threat is increasingly acute in places where changes are exacerbating longstanding generational, ethnic, economic, social, cultural, and regional disparities and generating new ones. An alternative path is possible. Adopting a progressive pragmatist approach to social inquiry and problem solution on the level of the community, we suggest the possibility of a more positive future. Engaging older adults, an important source of social capital, in this endeavor will be critical. Significant change in the current situation, with the objective of enhancing person/place harmony with equity and social justice for all, may not be rapid. It may take generations.

本文提出了一种新的视角来研究衰老与地域。采用杜威实用主义的观点，老化和地点是通过持续的情况的镜头来看待的。每一种情况都是老年人和地点之间共同构成关系的动态表达，这种关系是在寻求一种存在感的过程中，由地点整合过程塑造的。习惯和不断适应变化的环境是保持人/地方和谐的关键因素。在一个不断充满不确定性的世界里，导致不和谐的变化成为问题，引发了个人、社区或社会层面采取行动的需求。我们说明了当代的大趋势，包括加速的技术进步（尤其是人工智能）、气候变化，以及21世纪不断发展的新自由主义和民粹主义政治经济，如何威胁到老年人居住的地方，因为他们塑造了社会的生命历程，并有可能带来反乌托邦的未来。在变化加剧长期存在的代际、种族、经济、社会、文化和地区差异并产生新差异的地方，这种威胁日益严重。另一条道路是可能的。采用一种进步的实用主义方法，在社区层面进行社会调查和解决问题，我们提出了一个更积极的未来的可能性。让老年人——社会资本的重要来源——参与这一努力将至关重要。目前的情况可能不会迅速发生重大变化，其目标是加强人/地方的和谐，实现所有人的公平和社会正义。这可能需要几代人的时间。

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Tinkering with good care: Professional judgment and innovations in Danish nursing homes 修补良好护理：丹麦养老院的专业判断和创新

IF 1.9 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2025-09-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101362

Hanne Marlene Dahl , Morten Balle Hansen , Andrej Christian Lindholst

This article examines the COVID-19 pandemic as a large-scale natural experiment, presenting unique opportunities for reflection and insights into what constitutes ‘good care’ for front-line managers in Danish nursing homes. Using care and institutional theory, this exploratory study delves into how professional judgment and innovation redefine practices in nursing homes to provide quality care based upon qualitative questions in a national quantitative survey. Our analysis complements prevalent negative lessons on infections, high mortality, and moral distress by highlighting positive lessons about achieving intimacy and tranquillity during an extraordinary period. The article offers insights into the emergence of new care logics in a situation of rupture, as well as insights into the values and tensions inherent in good care work that are worth considering far beyond the pandemic. We offer lessons that relate to the role of professional judgment, the value of ‘active life’ in relation to a diversity of needs, as well as sufficient time and continuity of care logics.

本文将COVID-19大流行作为一项大规模的自然实验进行研究，为反思和洞察丹麦养老院一线管理人员的“良好护理”提供了独特的机会。本研究运用照护与制度理论，以一项全国性定量调查的定性问题为基础，探讨专业判断与创新如何重新定义养老院提供优质照护的实务。我们的分析补充了普遍存在的关于感染、高死亡率和道德困境的负面教训，强调了在一个特殊时期实现亲密和安宁的积极教训。这篇文章对在破裂的情况下出现的新的护理逻辑提供了见解，并对良好护理工作所固有的价值观和紧张关系提供了见解，这些价值观和紧张关系值得在大流行之外的更广泛的范围内考虑。我们提供的课程涉及专业判断的作用、与各种需求相关的“积极生活”的价值，以及充足的时间和护理逻辑的连续性。

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Intergenerational co-relations and resistance: Gendered aging in Ruth Ozeki's All Over Creation (2002) 代际关系与反抗：露丝·奥泽基《万物创造》（2002）中的性别老龄化

IF 1.9 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101353

Nicole Haring

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Queer temporality in Tony Kushner's angels in America 托尼·库什纳的美国天使中的酷儿时间性

IF 1.9 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101354

Lea Pešec

Tony Kushner's Angels in America, written in two parts during the early 1990s, vividly depicts the experiences of queer individuals confronting the AIDS crisis. Examined through the framework of anocriticism and queer temporality, the play challenges traditional life trajectories focused on reproduction, aging, and progress. Drawing on the work of theorists such as Roberta Maierhofer, Jack Halberstam, and Elizabeth Freeman, this analysis investigates how the play's fragmented narrative and interplay of supernatural and historical elements blur the boundaries between past, present, and future. Characters like Prior Walter and the Angel illustrate the tensions of queer aging and temporality. Prior's illness and his encounters with the Angel destabilize linear notions of life and death, creating a suspended sense of time where aging becomes unpredictable. The Angel's portrayal of time as cyclical and fractured disrupts assumptions that aging must follow a structured, linear path. By engaging with these temporal disruptions, Angels in America critiques socially constructed ideals of aging tied to health, productivity, and heteronormative family models. The play instead imagines futures shaped by resilience, interpersonal connection, and the transformative possibilities of queer existence beyond fixed life scripts. This critical reading positions Kushner's work as a vital contribution to critical conversations on aging, queerness, and temporality.

托尼·库什纳（Tony Kushner）的《美国天使》（Angels in America）于上世纪90年代初分上下两部分写成，生动地描绘了酷儿个体面对艾滋病危机的经历。通过反批评和酷儿暂时性的框架，该剧挑战了传统的生活轨迹，关注生殖、衰老和进步。借鉴罗伯塔·梅尔霍弗、杰克·哈伯斯坦和伊丽莎白·弗里曼等理论家的作品，本文分析了该剧支离破碎的叙事以及超自然和历史元素的相互作用如何模糊了过去、现在和未来之间的界限。像普莱尔·沃尔特和天使这样的角色说明了酷儿老龄化和时间性之间的紧张关系。Prior的疾病和他与天使的相遇打破了线性的生与死概念，创造了一种暂停的时间感，衰老变得不可预测。《天使》对时间的描述是周期性的和断裂的，打破了衰老必须遵循结构化线性路径的假设。通过对这些时间中断的研究，《美国天使》批判了与健康、生产力和异性恋家庭模式相关的社会建构的老龄化理想。相反，该剧想象的未来是由韧性、人际关系和酷儿存在的变革性可能性塑造的，而不是固定的生活剧本。这种批判性阅读将库什纳的作品定位为对衰老、酷儿和时间性的批判性对话的重要贡献。

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Secondary mediation of children's media use: An exploration of mothers-grandmothers' mediation dynamic 儿童媒介使用的二次中介：母亲-祖母中介动态的探索

IF 1.9 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101357

Galit Nimrod , Nelly Elias , Dafna Lemish

Attempts to shape children's media use by affecting other caregivers' mediation practices, defined here as “secondary mediation,” are a significant yet relatively undiscussed family dynamic. By investigating 267 dyads of the two primary caregivers in intergenerational families—mothers and grandmothers—the study presented in this article sheds light on the prevalence of secondary mediation, the factors predicting it, and its consequences. Our findings point to a considerable gap between the mothers and the grandmothers in reporting the existence of secondary mediation. Yet, they suggest that secondary mediation within these dyads depends on the relationship between the two generations, their level of education, their experience and comfort with the media used by the children, and the time the grandmothers spend caregiving for the grandchildren. These findings are interpreted in light of Maierhofer's ‘anocriticism’ approach, pointing to the need for further research.

试图通过影响其他照顾者的调解实践来塑造儿童的媒体使用，这里定义为“二次调解”，这是一个重要但相对未被讨论的家庭动态。通过对267对代际家庭中两个主要照顾者——母亲和祖母——的调查，本文提出的研究揭示了二次调解的流行程度、预测它的因素及其后果。我们的研究结果表明，在报告二级调解的存在方面，母亲和祖母之间存在相当大的差距。然而，他们认为，这些二代之间的次要调解取决于两代人之间的关系，他们的教育水平，他们对孩子使用的媒体的经验和舒适度，以及祖母照顾孙子孙女的时间。这些发现是根据Maierhofer的“无批判”方法来解释的，指出了进一步研究的必要性。

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Exploring the epic of older women's lives: Alexander Zeldin's The Confessions and Jan Vilanova's The Most Beautiful Thing We Can Do as intergenerational dramaturgies of the female life course 探索老年女性生活的史诗：亚历山大·泽尔丁的《自白》和扬·维拉诺瓦的《我们能做的最美的事情》作为女性生命历程的代际戏剧

IF 1.9 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101359

Núria Casado-Gual

Five decades after the term ‘herstory’ (Morgan 1970) was proposed, stories which have vindicated the social and historical role of anonymous women have proliferated in different biographical genres. More recently, the devastating effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on older people has also generated the need to generate or examine narratives of ageing (Jewusiak 2023) and to strengthen generational relationships (Ayalon et al. 2020). Despite the technical (and sometimes ethical) challenges posed by the act of representing the lives of others in the ageist and sexist cultures of the so-called advanced world (Friedan 1993; Gullette 2004; Sontag 1972; Woodward 1999), writing about or representing the lives of older women in particular can help restore constructive meanings of female old age from which all generations can benefit.

Drawing on the interdisciplinary framework of ageing studies in its intersections with gender and theatre studies, this paper examines two plays which, in London's and Barcelona's theatrical scenes, have recently placed the lives of anonymous older women in the spotlight: Jan Vilanova's The Most Beautiful Thing We Can Do (produced by Sixto Paz in 2022) and Alexander Zeldin's The Confessions (co-produced by the National Theatre in 2023). While Vilanova's text recreates the life of the author's grandmother, an anonymous Spanish woman who survived two wars and lived as an exile for most of her life, Zeldin's presents the personal journey of the writer and director's own mother, who was born in Australia and found a new life for herself as a divorcée and abuse survivor in London in the 1970s. Through a close reading of the two texts that builds on Roberta Maierhofer's (1999) pivotal concept of “anocriticism,” and in the light of Elinor Fuchs' age-focused interpretation of Brechtian theatre, the article observes the dramatic strategies whereby these two intergenerational ‘herstories’ for the stage can be considered ‘epic’ narratives of the female life course.

在“历史故事”一词（Morgan 1970）被提出五十年后，证明匿名女性社会和历史角色的故事在不同的传记体裁中激增。最近，2019冠状病毒病大流行对老年人的破坏性影响也促使人们有必要产生或审视老龄化叙事（Jewusiak 2023），并加强代际关系（Ayalon et al. 2020）。尽管在所谓先进世界的年龄歧视和性别歧视文化中表现他人生活的行为带来了技术（有时是道德）挑战（Friedan 1993; Gullette 2004; Sontag 1972; Woodward 1999），但写作或表现老年妇女的生活尤其有助于恢复女性老年的建设性意义，所有世代都能从中受益。利用老龄化研究与性别和戏剧研究交叉的跨学科框架，本文研究了两部戏剧，这两部戏剧最近在伦敦和巴塞罗那的戏剧场景中，将匿名老年妇女的生活置于聚光灯下：扬·维拉诺瓦的《我们能做的最美的事情》（由西克斯托·帕兹于2022年制作）和亚历山大·泽尔丁的《自白》（由国家剧院于2023年联合制作）。维拉诺瓦的作品再现了作者祖母的生活，她是一位无名的西班牙妇女，在两次战争中幸存下来，一生中大部分时间都在流亡，而泽尔丁的作品则呈现了这位作家兼导演的母亲的个人旅程，她出生在澳大利亚，20世纪70年代在伦敦以离婚和虐待幸存者的身份找到了自己的新生活。通过对这两篇基于罗伯塔·梅尔霍弗（1999）“反批评”关键概念的文本的仔细阅读，并根据埃莉诺·富克斯（Elinor Fuchs）对布里希特戏剧以年龄为中心的解释，本文观察了戏剧策略，即这两代人之间的舞台“她的故事”可以被认为是女性生命历程的“史诗”叙事。

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Introduction: Age and gender in the humanities and social sciences: contemporary and historical perspectives dedicated to roberta maierhofer 引言：人文和社会科学中的年龄和性别：当代和历史的视角，致力于罗伯塔·梅尔霍费尔

IF 1.9 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101360

Nicole Haring, Heike Hartung, Barbara Zach

In this Special Issue of the Journal of Aging Studies, we endeavour to honor Roberta Maierhofer's inspiring scholarship by original research that addresses the intersections of age and gender in cultural Age/ing Studies and Critical Gerontology. From the perspective of feminist literary studies, Roberta Maierhofer introduced the term “anocriticism” in the late 1990s to analyze literature concerned with female aging processes. The contributions in this Special Issue bring together many different perspectives on the intersecting categories of age and gender, linking sociological perspectives to those of film and literary scholarship. In this way our collection of articles hopes to continue the tradition of interdisciplinarity that characterizes not only critical gerontology, but is also the hallmark of Roberta's oeuvre as a literature scholar whose interests and approaches have been versatile, wide-ranging and truly humanistic.

在这期《老龄研究杂志》的特刊中，我们努力表彰Roberta Maierhofer的鼓舞人心的奖学金，她的原创研究解决了文化年龄/老龄化研究和关键老年学中年龄和性别的交叉点。Roberta Maierhofer从女性主义文学研究的角度，在20世纪90年代末引入了“反批评”（anocticism）一词来分析与女性衰老过程有关的文学。本期特刊的贡献汇集了许多关于年龄和性别交叉类别的不同观点，将社会学观点与电影和文学奖学金的观点联系起来。通过这种方式，我们的文章集希望延续跨学科的传统，这不仅是批判性老年学的特征，也是罗伯塔作为一个文学学者的全部作品的标志，她的兴趣和方法是多方面的，广泛的，真正的人文主义。

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Mapping female ageing in the twenty-first century in Deborah Moggach's last novels 在黛博拉·莫加奇的最后一部小说中描绘了21世纪的女性老龄化

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Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101351

Maricel Oró-Piqueras

Despite having published seventeen novels, a good number of short stories, and scripts since she started her writing career at the end of the 1970s, academic work on Moggach's literary career has mainly dealt with her novel These Foolish Things (2004) and its film version The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011). This paper will focus on Moggach's last three novels in which the reader is guided by the voice of three women in their late sixties and seventies, namely Something to Hide (2015), The Carer (2019), and The Black Dress (2021). Following an already well-established body of criticism on representations of female ageing in fiction, this paper will argue that Moggach's last novels add nuance and richness to the representation of female ageing in the twenty-first century. With her particular use of narrative humour, Moggach allows the reader into the minds of female characters who, on the one hand, are still affected by Sontag's “double standard of ageing” (1972) which makes them feel utterly lonely, both at an individual and social level, whereas, on the other hand, they are hungry to establish meaningful relationships, especially in their path to old age and death. By fostering new romantic and sexual relationships, and probably without being aware of it, Moggach's female characters escape the pressures of agelessness and embrace their ageing bodies as well as those of their lovers, even if only for a while.

尽管自20世纪70年代末开始她的写作生涯以来，她已经出版了17部小说，大量的短篇小说和剧本，但关于莫加奇文学生涯的学术研究主要涉及她的小说《这些愚蠢的事情》（2004年）及其电影版《最好的异国金菊酒店》（2011年）。本文将重点介绍莫加奇最后三部以六七十岁女性的声音为指导的小说，分别是《隐藏的东西》（2015）、《护工》（2019）和《黑裙子》（2021）。在对小说中女性老龄化表现的一种已经确立的批评体系之后，本文将论证莫加奇的最后一部小说为21世纪女性老龄化的表现增添了细微差别和丰富性。莫加奇特别运用叙事幽默，让读者进入女性角色的内心，一方面，她们仍然受到桑塔格“老龄化的双重标准”（1972）的影响，这使她们在个人和社会层面上都感到完全孤独，然而，另一方面，她们渴望建立有意义的关系，尤其是在通往老年和死亡的道路上。通过培养新的浪漫关系和性关系，也许在没有意识到这一点的情况下，莫加奇笔下的女性角色逃避了衰老的压力，拥抱了她们衰老的身体和爱人的身体，即使只是一段时间。

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“For ladies, 35 is check-out time”: An anocritical approach to the sitcom Girls5eva “对女人来说，35岁是退房时间”：对情景喜剧《都市女孩》的一种批评

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Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101326

Aagje Swinnen, Sara De Vuyst

This article offers an anocritical reading of Girls5eva, a sitcom about a 1990s one-hit girl group trying to make a comeback. Building on scholarship into the representation of aging women in popular media and the music industry, our reading first addresses fuzzy boundaries between life stages and transgressions of the normalized life course. Second, we examine the discourse of girl power and its relationship to midlife transformation. Third, we focus on ageism in the music industry and what it means for the comeback of female artists in midlife. We conclude that while Girls5eva critically engages with narratives of aging, success, and female empowerment, some of its uses of humor ultimately reinstates oppressive ideologies by relying on ageist and sexist tropes and offers little perspective for women to overcome shame in midlife and get social justice.

这篇文章对情景喜剧《Girls5eva》进行了批判性的解读。这部喜剧讲述的是20世纪90年代一个风靡一时的女子组合试图卷土重来的故事。在对流行媒体和音乐行业中老年女性的代表性进行学术研究的基础上，我们的阅读首先解决了生活阶段和正常生活过程的越界之间的模糊界限。其次，我们考察了女性权力的话语及其与中年转型的关系。第三，我们关注音乐行业的年龄歧视，以及这对中年女性艺术家的回归意味着什么。我们得出的结论是，尽管《Girls5eva》批判性地参与了衰老、成功和女性赋权的叙事，但其中一些幽默的使用最终通过依赖年龄歧视和性别歧视的隐喻，恢复了压迫性的意识形态，并为女性在中年克服羞耻、获得社会正义提供了很少的视角。

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A real old man: Aging masculinity and late-life creativity in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea 一个真正的老人：欧内斯特·海明威的《老人与海》中的老年男子气概和晚年创造力

IF 1.9 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101356

Anita Wohlmann

There is surprisingly little age-critical research on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (1952), even though the novella seems like an obvious choice for age studies. This article reviews foundational concepts and approaches in age studies on gender, performativity, creativity and space and brings them into dialog with The Old Man and the Sea. In the first part, the representation of older age and gender is emphasized through an analysis of the intersectional and performative nature of the old man's aging masculinity, including a focus on the aesthetic choices which contribute to the novella's semantic complexity. Building on this analysis, the second part centers on a discussion of late-life creativity and the spatiality of aging, suggesting that practices of “small c” creativity, such as self-talk, are spatially contingent and affect how the novel's hero, Santiago, performs his aging masculinity in different locales, namely in the village and at sea. The final part offers suggestions for further age-critical perspectives on the novella. Taken together, these approaches demonstrate the novella's continuing value and appeal for both academic research—especially age studies—and, more generally, for insight into what it means to age in a dignified way.

令人惊讶的是，关于海明威的《老人与海》（1952）的年龄批判研究很少，尽管这部中篇小说似乎是年龄研究的明显选择。本文回顾了年龄研究中关于性别、表演性、创造性和空间的基本概念和方法，并与《老人与海》进行了对话。在第一部分中，通过分析老人老年男子气概的交叉性和表演性来强调老年和性别的表现，包括对审美选择的关注，这些选择有助于中篇小说的语义复杂性。在此分析的基础上，第二部分集中讨论了晚年创造力和衰老的空间性，表明“小c”创造力的实践，如自我对话，在空间上是偶然的，并影响了小说主人公圣地亚哥在不同地点（即村庄和海上）如何表现他的老年男子气概。最后一部分提出了对中篇小说进一步的年龄批判观点的建议。综上所述，这些方法证明了中篇小说对学术研究（尤其是年龄研究）的持续价值和吸引力，更普遍的是，对于以一种有尊严的方式变老意味着什么的洞察。

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