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- Sandberg, Linn, 1983-
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Getting intimate : Old age, masculinity and new (?) heterosexual morphologies
- 2009
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Ingår i: GEXcel Work in Progress Report, Volume V. - Linköping. - 9789173936637 - 9789176686539 ; , s. 61-78
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This article is in many ways telling and illustrative for a prevailing discourse on older men’s sexuality as lifelong; in which sexuality is reinforced and constructed as something that despite ageing persists. Literature on sexuality and later life often point to the obfuscation of older people’s sexuality and how the neglect of sexuality in later life (in research and elsewhere) render older asexual. A shift in discourse can however be identified in which older people’s sexuality, from being an unthinkable issue, increasingly is regarded as lifelong and part of a healthy and positive ageing. What the article on Sven Tumba conveys is, however, how sexuality is by and large equated with erection and heterosexual penetrative sex, something which is in line with how discourses of lifelong and healthy ageing are often constructed. Impotence is posited as the major threat to continued sexual activity in later life, and sexuality is hence conceptualised in a narrow way and largely rooted in male experience.
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- Sandberg, Linn, 1983-
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Getting Intimate : A Feminist Analysis of Old Age, Masculinity and Sexuality
- 2011
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis focuses on the intersections of masculinity, old age and sexuality from the perspectives of old men themselves, how they understand and experience sex and sexuality in later life. The study uses qualitative in-depth interviews and body diaries, an exploratory method that asked men write about their bodies in everyday life. Twenty-two men, born between 1922 and 1942, participated in the study. The aim of the thesis is two-fold: firstly, to study sexual subjectivities of old men, how old men articulate and make meaning around sexuality in later life. Secondly, the study aims to explore theoretically what a male body may become in relation to ageing; in what ways the ageing male body could be a site for rethinking masculinity and the male body. This aim was inspired by feminist theories in dialogue with the deleuzian concept becoming. Similarly to gender, age is understood to take shape and become intelligible in social and cultural contexts. Furthermore, the thesis stresses the significance of the specificities of the ageing body to the shaping of masculinity, sexuality and subjectivity. The body is therefore discussed as an “open materiality”, beyond the binaries of culture and nature/materiality.This thesis discusses the concepts intimacy and touch as central to how old men’s sexual subjectivities take shape, allowing for alternative conceptualisations of sexuality beyond erection and intercourse. Intimacy and touch are understood and discussed in several different ways. By orienting themselves to touch and intimacy the old men emerged as more mature, unselfish and with more serene sexual desires. This also involved them distancing themselves from the younger man/other men, whom they perceived as more selfish, inconsiderate and with stronger sexual desires. Intimacy and touch could in this respect be understood as resources for shaping desirable heterosexual masculinity. An orientation to intimacy and touch enabled old men to appear as neither asexual nor as “dirty” old men. But the study also suggests that a turn to intimacy and touch may open up possibilities for rethinking and reconfiguring sexuality, masculinity and the male body. The ageing body then need not be understood as an obstacle but as an enabling site that provides opportunities for intimacy and touch. Moreover, the thesis presents affirmative old age as an alternative conceptualisation of old age, beyond both the discourses of successful ageing and the discourses of old age as negativity and decline. As a theory of difference and bodily specificity, affirmative old age may be of interest for further feminist theorising.
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- Sandberg, Linn, 1983-
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In Lust We Trust? Masculinity and Sexual Desire in Later Life
- 2016
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Ingår i: Men and Masculinities. - 1097-184X .- 1552-6828. ; 19:2, s. 192-208
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recent years have seen increasing discussions of sexuality in later life. Today, continued sexual activity is gradually understood as a positive and healthy aspect of aging, in contrast to how aging historically was primarily associated with asexuality. Old men’s sexual function, in particular, has been a topic of notable interest to scholars and popular media alike, an interest spurred not least by the market introduction of Viagra and other sexuo-pharmaceuticals. If aging men’s sexual function has been the object of extensive discussion, considerably less attention has been given to the question of sexual desire in later life, neither women’s nor men’s. Old men’s sexual desire is a potentially conflictual field as men are often expected to be sexually willing but the old man who shows continued sexual interest also run the risk of being labeled a “dirty old man.” This article focuses on old men, masculinity, and sexual desire through the interview narratives of Swedish med between sixty-seven and eighty-seven years old. In dialogue with Sara Ahmed’s work on queer phenomenology, the article discusses asserted sexual desire as a form of orientation that shapes old men’s heterosexual subjectivities. The interviewees expressed that sexual desire continued to be an important aspect of later life, but sexual desire was also understood to vanish as one aged. For those who expressed a lack of sexual desire, this was sometimes experienced as a “gender trouble” but was also made sense of in relation to feeling old. All on all, intimacy was a central way of making sense of later life sexuality. The article concludes that narratives on intimacy could be understood as ways of retaining a heterosexual orientation as one ages. Through narratives of intimacy men could express a continued interest in sexuality, but in positive and unthreatening ways that avoided the stigmatization of being a dirty old man.
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- Sandberg, Linn, 1983-
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Just feeling a naked body close to you : Men, Sexuality and Intimacy in Later Life
- 2013
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Ingår i: Sexualities. - : Sage Publications. - 1363-4607 .- 1461-7382. ; 16:3/4, s. 261-282
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite an increasing emphasis on sexuality as lifelong and part of healthy ageing, the voices of older men and women are seldom heard. Based on qualitative interviews with Swedish heterosexual men aged 67-87, this article discusses how men make sense of later life sexuality through narratives of intimacy. In the interviews, intimacy is described as something more or other than sexual intercourse, involving both touch and feelings of love and closeness in a committed relationship. Inspired by the work of Ahmed (The Cultural Politics of Emotion, 2004) the article discusses how narratives of intimacy shape the sexual subjectivities and bodies of older men. Intimacy is discussed as making sexual subjectivities and bodies possible beyond a coital imperative. As such, intimacy is of potential use to anti-ageist and feminist theorizing. However, intimacy is also discussed as a possible reinforcement of respectable heterosexuality. The article concludes that intimacy may be a way for older heterosexual men to navigate between current binary discourses of asexual old age and 'sexy seniors'.
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- Sandberg, Linn, 1983-
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Lita till lusten? : Heterosexuella äldre män och innebörder av lust
- 2010. - 1
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Ingår i: Livslinjer. - Göteborg : Makadam. - 9789170610899 ; , s. 48-71
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Hur gammal är du?Vad ska du bli när du blir stor?Lever du fortfarande ensam?Du ska nog se att det går över.När ska du stadga dig och skaffa barn?Man är inte en dag äldre än man känner sig.Är du inte för gammal för att klä dig sådär!Man behöver väl inte se ut som en tant bara för att man fyllt femtio!Så tänkte jag också i din ålder.Livslinjer handlar om åldrandet och framtiden. Om de förväntningar som sätter gränser för hur en levnadsbana kan se ut i vår samtid. Om de gränser som får oss att inte vilja framstå som omogna eller lastgamla, som gubbtjyvar eller snorungar. Men den handlar också omde möjligheter som finns att påverka och rita om våra livslinjer. Om hur vi aktivt kan använda oss av föreställningar om ålder för att förskjutagränser och vidga vårt utrymme. Fokus ligger på livslinjernas sexuella och genussprängande dimensioner, det vill säga hur genus och sexualitet skapas i relation till ålder och åldrande.I den här boken finner du till exempel en analys av femåringars föreställningar om sin framtid och vad det innebär att vara kär, en undersökning av äldre mäns lust och sexualitet, en studie av åldersmotstånd bland queerkids och en analys av osamtidigt åldrande i Kerstin Thorvalls författarskap.Skribenterna är forskare med olika ämnesmässig bakgrund --antropologi, litteraturvetenskap, kulturgeografi, etnologi, idéhistoria -- från olika lärosäten i landet.
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- Sandberg, Linn, 1983-
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Livet, döden, ståndet
- 2010
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Ingår i: Gaudeamus. ; 86:7, s. 14-15
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Sandberg, Linn, 1983-
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"Man har ju lärt sig ett och annat” : Äldre män och berättelser om sexualitet, mognad och förändring
- 2012. - 1
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Ingår i: Andra män<em> </em>. - Malmö : Gleerups Utbildning AB. - 9789140677280 ; , s. 45-63
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Sverige är världens mest jämställda land, med världens mest jämställda män. Åtminstone framställs det ofta så, både i offentlig debatt och i vardagliga samtal. Denna bild av den normale svenska mannen upprätthålls dock genom att något annat - eller någon annan - skapas som avvikande, annorlunda, obegriplig eller sjuk.I den här antologin diskuteras hur det som uppfattas som goda handlingar används för att representera det gemensamma, medan våldsbrott, kvinnomisshandel och sexism förklaras som ett verk av Andra män. Är det därför som män som misshandlat kvinnor har så svårt att se sig själva som kvinnomisshandlare? Är det därför som fördomsfulla stereotyper av invandrarmän används som förklaring till brott eller sexism?Hur kommer det sig i så fall att även feministiska män skapas som avvikande? Och vilka föreställningar utmanas egentligen när äldre män beskriver sina växande bröst som sexuellt laddade och njutbara? Varför kan män med funktionsnedsättning inte debattera hjälp till sex utan att ses som kvinnoförtryckare? Eller varför är pedofilen så närvarande i samtal mellan unga män på ett behandlingshem, medan mäns sexuella våld mot barn är så frånvarande i svenska diskussioner om mäns föräldraskap och män i barnomsorg?I Andra män diskuterar forskare från antropologi, genusvetenskap, socialt arbete, sociologi och ungdomsvetenskap hur Andra män pekas ut som avvikande, men också hur dessa män hanterar utpekandet.
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- Sandberg, Linn, 1983-
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The Old, the Ugly and the Queer : thinking old age in relation to queer theory
- 2008
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Ingår i: Graduate journal of Social Science. ; 5:2, s. 117-139
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article seeks to use queer theory as a social theory and a critical challenge to normalcy all together to theorise old age in gender studies. Additionally the article discusses some implications of bringing old age into queer theory, where the able body, older person-s sexualities in relation to heteronormativity, to mention a few things, are central for future queer theory. The red thread of the article is how the anti-social turn in queer theory and embracing shame may be used to critique the prevailing discourses of old age as either -successful- where the older person should be active and independent or old age as decline and decay. Queer theoretical notions such as failure and the abject are used to theorise old age and ageing bodies, but the article also discusses how some flexible bodies can overcome failures given class, sexuality, ablebodiedness and race etc. To perform in the Butlerian sense an intelligible and desired self is dependent both on gender, sexuality and age and this is in effect relying on certain modes of temporality. Queer temporality may thus challenge what is considered normal and good ageing but also reveal the taken for grantedness of normative time. The article concludes that by thinking queer theory and old age together a resurrection of knowledges is made possible, outside the good, successful and respectable old age.
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