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- Sandberg, Linn, et al.
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Queering Aging Futures
- 2017
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In: Societies. - : MDPI. - 2075-4698. ; 7:21, s. 1-11
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper explores the potential for cultural gerontology to extend its ideas of diversity in aging experiences by opening space to rethink conceptions of successful aging futures. We propose a ‘queering’ of aging futures that disrupts the ways that expectations of a good later life and happy aging are seen to adhere to some bodies and subjectivities over others. Drawing on feminist, queer, and crip theories, we build on existing critiques of ‘successful aging’ to interrogate the assumptions of heteronormativity, able-bodiedness and able-mindedness that shape the dividing lines between success and failure in aging, and which inform attempts to ‘repair’ damaged futures. Conclusions suggest that recognizing diversity in successful aging futures is important in shaping responses to the challenges of aging societies, and presents an opportunity for critical cultural gerontology to join with its theoretical allies in imagining more inclusive alternatives.
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- Sandberg, Linn
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Sexualitet, lust, demens
- 2019
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In: Ottar: tidskrift om sexualitet & samhälle från RFSU. - : Riksförbundet för sexuell upplysning. - 1650-8017.
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- Sandberg, Linn
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Dementia and the gender trouble? : Theorising dementia, gendered subjectivity and embodiment
- 2018
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In: Journal of Aging Studies. - : Elsevier. - 0890-4065 .- 1879-193X. ; 45, s. 25-31
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Despite person-centred approaches increasingly focusing on looking at the person in dementia instead of the pathology, the role of gender in dementia has been little explored. This article discusses how pervasive discourses on a loss of self and dementia as abject are interwoven with a de-gendering of persons with dementia. The cultural anxiety that dementia evokes in terms of loss of bodily and cognitive control could also be linked to a failure to normatively and intelligibly express gender when living with dementia. As a way to sustain personhood for people with dementia and challenge discourses on people with dementia as ‘non-people’, person-centred approaches have emphasised the collaborative work of carers, relatives and persons with dementia. Often implicitly, this also involves a ‘re-gendering’ of persons with dementia where gendered biographies and pasts are upheld and gendered embodied selfhood is maintained through, for example, dress, hair and other aspects of appearance. This re-gendering could be of great significance for people with dementia to become intelligible as persons. Still, dementia studies must further consider non-normative expressions of gender and involve feminist theorising on gender as a power asymmetry since some embodiments and selves are more likely to be sustained in dementia than others.
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- Sandberg, Linn
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I nöd och lust : sexuella och intima relationer vid Alzheimers sjukdom
- 2021
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In: Ä : en tidning för Riksföreningen sjuksköterskan inom äldrevård : geriatriker, dietister inom geriatrik samt alla professioner runt den äldre patienten. - : Riksföreningen sjuksköterskan inom äldrevård. - 2001-1164. ; :3, s. 32-33
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- Sandberg, Linn, et al.
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Regulating, fostering and preserving : the production of sexual normates through cognitive ableism and cognitive othering
- 2021
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In: Culture, Health and Sexuality. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1369-1058 .- 1464-5351. ; 23:10, s. 1421-1434
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- People with cognitive disabilities are commonly positioned as risky sexual subjects. This article discusses the discursive production of sexual normates in the form of desirable and normative able-minded sexual subjects, in scientific research on the sexuality and cognitive disabilities of younger and older individuals (in particular those with dementia). We identify three interrelated discourses: regulating sexuality; fostering sexuality; and preserving sexuality. The first of these, regulation, pathologises sexuality of people with cognitive disabilities as faulty and in need of restriction. The second discourse, fostering, is more affirmative and argues for educating for a 'healthy' sexuality of people with cognitive disabilities, to mitigate risks of abuse. This discourse is more salient with younger people. The third discourse, preservation, in contrast, is more visible with older people with dementia and affirms sexuality so long as it is consistent with a 'genuine' or 'authentic' sexuality of the past. In conclusion, scientific research reinforces the cultural ideal of the rational and autonomous individual (and as such the mature/adult) capable of making independent decisions and engaging in healthy, good sex, based on stable sexual identities. Findings demonstrate how age intersects with cognitive ableism to intensify the cultural anxiety that exists around the sexualities of people with cognitive disabilities.
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- Sandberg, Linn
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Sex, lust och demens
- 2019
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In: Demensforum. - : Demensförbundet. - 1100-9055. ; :3, s. 14-15
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- Sandberg, Linn, et al.
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The online hostility hypothesis : representations of Muslims in online media
- 2023
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In: Social influence. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1553-4510 .- 1553-4529. ; 18:1
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Using a large data set of online media content in eight European countries, this paper broadens the empirical investigation of the online hostility hypothesis, which posits that interactions on social sites such as blogs and forums contain more hostile expressions toward minority groups than social interactions offline or in editorial news media. Overall, our results are consistent with the online hostility hypothesis when comparing news media content with social sites, but we find that negatively charged representations are common in both media types. It is instead the amount of attention to Muslims and Islam on social sites that most clearly differs and is the main driver of online hostility in the online media environment more broadly conceived.
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- Sandberg, Linn
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Too late for love? : Sexuality and intimacy in heterosexual couples living with an Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis
- 2023
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In: Sexual and Relationship Therapy. - : Routledge. - 1468-1994 .- 1468-1749. ; 38:1, s. 118-139
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- New sexual scripts on later life are emerging, discourses on “sexy oldies” challenge pervasive discourses on asexual old age. Still, sexuality among people with dementia, who are generally older, is rarely affirmed. Research on sexuality and dementia is, moreover, dominated by biomedical accounts that regard sexual and intimate behaviours as expressions of pathology. However, sexuality and intimacy could be significant aspects of later life, also when living with dementia. This qualitative study explores experiences of sexuality and intimacy among heterosexual couples where one partner was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Interviews were conducted with seven couples, aged 55–87, and both the person with the dementia diagnosis and their partner participated. The findings point to a diversity of experiences, with differences between the older and younger couples. The older couples experienced changes more as a result of embodied ageing, and sexuality and intimacy were experienced as sources of pleasure, comfort and recognition. The younger couples understood changes more as caused by Alzheimer’s disease and experienced a greater loss of intimacy and desire. The study shows how experiences of sexuality and intimacy when living with dementia are shaped by varying sexual scripts and expectations of health in different parts of the life course.
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