Langbein, Fuchs, and Cosgrove: Introduction Desmond ONeill: Cultural Gerontology at the Intersection Section I. The Open Body: Resisting Biomedical Old Age1. 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 Age4. Wendy Martin: Ageing, Materiality, and Everyday Life 5. Anne Fuchs, Gender, the Politics of Looking, and the Narration of Old Age: ElizabethStrout's Empathetic Realism in Olive, Again 6. Andrew King, Reframing LGBT+ Ageing in Challenging Times Section III. The Language of Ageing: Critical Reading Across Disciplines7. Ulla Kriebernegg, Growing Old Amid Climate Change: Dystopian Narratives ofVulnerability 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 andDefinitions Section IV. Intimacy and Experience: Alternative Analyses of Ageing11. 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 Wardrops Cocooned(2021) Section V. The Social Imaginary: History and the Public Face of Old Age14. David Troyanski, JRs Wrinkles of the City Project: Representing Global Old Age,2008-2015 15. Mary Cosgrove, The Meaning of Middle Age in Terézia Moras Darius-Kopp Trilogy 16. Julia Langbein, Born Old: The Discovery of a Lost Generation of Black AmericanArtists and their Challenge to Late Style
