Research Catalog

Title

Growing older : perspectives on LGBT aging / edited by James T. Sears.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

Sears, James T. (James Thomas), 1951-

Description

x, 210 p.; 24 cm.

Uniform Title

Journal of gay & lesbian social services.

Subject

• Aging
• Bisexuality
• Homosexuality
• Minority Groups
• Older gays
• Older sexual minorities
• Social Work
• Social work with older sexual minorities
• Transsexualism

Note

• "Published as a special issue of the Journal of gay & lesbian social services."--Prelim. p.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : queering later life / James T. Sears -- 1. Older gay, lesbian, and bisexual adults : tools for age-competent and gay affirmative practice / Catherine Crisp, Sherrill Wayland, Theresa Gordon -- 2. Psychotherapy with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender older adults / Steven David, Paul A. Cernin -- 3. Conducting research among older lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults / Arnold H. Grossman -- 4. Conceptualizations of family by older gay men / Anna Muraco, Allen J. LeBlanc, Stephen T. Russell -- 5. Social support as a predictor of psychological and physical well-being and lifestyle in lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults aged 50 and over / Blase E. Masini, Hope A. Barrett -- 6. Aging with HIV : historical and intra-community differences in experience of aging with HIV / Wallace A. Robinson [and others] -- 7. Building strength through challenging homophobia : liberation workshops with younger and midlife Irish lesbians / Geraldine Moane -- 8. Neither silent nor invisible : a comparison of two participative projects involving older lesbians and gay men in the United Kingdom / Richard Ward, Lindsay River, Lee-Ann Fenge -- 9. Imagined futures and communities : older lesbian, and gay people's narratives on health and aged care / Mark Hughes -- 10. Ageing lesbians : marginalising discourses and social exclusion in the aged care industry / Joy Phillips, Genee Marks.

ISBN

• 9781560237884 (hard cover : alk. paper)
• 1560237880 (hard cover : alk. paper)
• 9781560237891 (soft cover : alk. paper)
• 1560237899 (soft cover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007029591

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library