Barbara L Marshall
Biographic Data
| ID | 118783 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara L Marshall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara L |
| FAMILY NAME | Marshall |
| SIGNATURE | MARSHALL B L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trent University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 276 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Virtual roundtable discussion of ‘Revisioning ageing futures: Feminist, queer, crip and decolonial visions of a good old age’
Tracked and fit: FitBits, brain games, and the quantified aging body
Happily ever after? ‘Successful ageing’ and the heterosexual imaginary
‘Successful ageing’ has been a controversial concept in cultural gerontology, prompting critiques of its inherent individualism, neglect of structural inequalities and promotion of neoliberal strategies of self-care. This article aims at developing the critique of its heteronormative underpinnings. Drawing on cultural gerontology, feminist theory and queer theory, a critique of the rhetoric and visual representation of ‘successful ageing’ is deve…
Celebrity, ageing and the construction of ‘third age’ identities
This article explores celebrity as a point of articulation between consumer culture and the reconfiguration of ageing lifestyles and identities in contemporary culture – described by cultural gerontologists as the ‘Third Age’. We focus on ageing stars whose celebrity is used to promote a particular vision of successful ageing, describing the cultural basis and significance of this phenomenon through a case study of cover celebrities in Zoomer , a…
Medicalization and the Refashioning of Age-Related Limits on Sexuality
This article explores the convergence of sexual medicine and anti-aging medicine as they have refashioned standards of sexual functionality and reconstructed sexual life courses. Reversing the long-held stereotypes of asexual or post-sexual seniors, expectations of continued sexual functionality as an indicator of health in later life now underpin a growing medical and therapeutic industry. While more positive images of eldersex are certainly an …
Science, medicine and virility surveillance: Sexy Seniors' in the Pharmaceutical Imagination
While historically sex has been seen primarily as the prerogative of the young, more recently, the emphasis has been on the maintenance of active sexuality as a marker of successful ageing. A new cultural consensus appears to have emerged which not only emphasises the importance of continued sexual activity across the lifespan, but links sexual function with overall health and encourages increased self-surveillance of, and medical attention to, l…
Sexual Medicine, Sexual Bodies and the ‘Pharmaceutical Imagination’
This paper analyzes contemporary clinical research on sexual dysfunctions to explore the biomedical construction of sexual bodies. The clinical and commercial success of Viagra as a treatment for erectile dysfunction intensified the search for biomedical explanations and solutions for an expanded range of sexual disorders in both women and men. I review significant shifts in scientific and cultural narratives of sexual problems, focusing on the e…
Climacteric Redux: (Re)medicalizing the Male Menopause
This article analyzes the contemporary construction of male menopause as a clinical disorder. While medical interest in a male climacteric has waxed and waned over the past century, the past decade has witnessed a surge of both scientific and commercial interest in its diagnosis and treatment. In explaining why this is the case, the author suggests that shifting cultural narratives of aging and sexuality, rather than any new scientific evidence, …
The New Virility: Viagra, Male Aging and Sexual Function
While it was once assumed that sexual function and virility naturally declined with age, the sexual capacities of the aging body have more recently been aligned to new performative standards, particularly for men. This article explores the history and contemporary dimensions of this new culture of virility. The first section reviews shifting scientific and cultural narratives of the sex/age problematic. The latter part of the article explores how…
Encyclopedia of Social Theory
The Encyclopedia of Social Theory contains over 500 entries varying from concise definitions of key terms and short biographies of key theorists to comprehensive surveys of leading concepts, debates, themes and schools. The object of the Encyclopedia has been to give thorough coverage of the central topics in theoretical sociology as well as terms
Is the Functional 'Normal'? Aging, Sexuality and the Bio-marking of Successful Living
This article raises the question of 'normality' today and the fracturing of health ideals along new lines of enablement and function. In particular the study asks if 'functional' and 'dysfunctional' are displacing 'normal' and 'pathological' as master biopolitical binarisms, and if so, what distinctions can be drawn between them. The discourse of 'function' and 'dysfunction' is certainly ubiquitous in two areas of research and practice: gerontolo…
The Quality of Manhood: Masculinity and Embodiment in the Sociological Tradition
This paper argues for the need to revisit classical sociological texts with a view to excavating the masculinity that inheres in these texts and saturates the concept of the social. Primarily through an examination of Durkheim and Simmel, it explores the strategies whereby masculine individuals could be released from corporeality and granted the sort of embodiment that allowed them to transcend their particularity and become social agents. It is …
Forever Functional: Sexual Fitness and the Ageing Male Body
Historically, male sexual fitness was framed by a patriarchal politics of life centred on regeneration, population and nation. In the later 20th century, as successful ageing became promoted by the lifestyle practices of an idealized healthy and active senior citizenry, traditional gerontocratic power over the sexual risks of youth gave way to a medical sexology concerned with sexual functionality across the lifecourse; in particular, erectility.…
Snips and Snails and Theorists' Tales: Classical Sociological Theory and the Making of ‘Sex
This article locates classical sociology within the context of widely circulating scientific 'truths' about sexed bodies, exploring how the emerging discipline of sociology both drew on and contributed to the construction of a scientifically grounded sexual dimorphism. Through an examination of Durkheim's theory of conjugal society and Weber's writings on the routinization of sexual conduct, the extent to which anxieties about masculine sexuality…
Hard Science: Gendered Constructions of Sexual Dysfunction in the `Viagra Age
This article locates Viagra, as both a biotechnology and a cultural event, in relation to shifting and specifically gendered interpretations of sexual function and dysfunction. While the clinical and market success of Viagra has prompted biomedicine and its popularizers to speak of a `new age' in human sexual relations, and accord it causal agency in effecting social change, I suggest that we might profit by attending to the social claims that un…
Communication as politics
Feminist theory and critical theory
Je passe en revue, dans cet article, certains problèmes clés des théories socialistes‐féministes de la reproduction de ľoppression des femmes; et j'appelle à un dialogue plus soutenu entre théorie féministe et ‘théorie critique’. Bien que cette dernière ait jusqu'à maintenant peu étudié les questions de sexe, on les trouve en filigrane dans les thèmes principaux de la théorie critique. De plus, ces questions représentent une illustration de choix…
Is the Functional 'Normal'? Aging, Sexuality and the Bio-marking of Successful Living
This article raises the question of 'normality' today and the fracturing of health ideals along new lines of enablement and function. In particular the study asks if 'functional' and 'dysfunctional' are displacing 'normal' and 'pathological' as master biopolitical binarisms, and if so, what distinctions can be drawn between them. The discourse of 'function' and 'dysfunction' is certainly ubiquitous in two areas of research and practice: gerontolo…
Hard Science: Gendered Constructions of Sexual Dysfunction in the `Viagra Age
This article locates Viagra, as both a biotechnology and a cultural event, in relation to shifting and specifically gendered interpretations of sexual function and dysfunction. While the clinical and market success of Viagra has prompted biomedicine and its popularizers to speak of a `new age' in human sexual relations, and accord it causal agency in effecting social change, I suggest that we might profit by attending to the social claims that un…
Forever Functional: Sexual Fitness and the Ageing Male Body
Historically, male sexual fitness was framed by a patriarchal politics of life centred on regeneration, population and nation. In the later 20th century, as successful ageing became promoted by the lifestyle practices of an idealized healthy and active senior citizenry, traditional gerontocratic power over the sexual risks of youth gave way to a medical sexology concerned with sexual functionality across the lifecourse; in particular, erectility.…
Science, medicine and virility surveillance: Sexy Seniors' in the Pharmaceutical Imagination
While historically sex has been seen primarily as the prerogative of the young, more recently, the emphasis has been on the maintenance of active sexuality as a marker of successful ageing. A new cultural consensus appears to have emerged which not only emphasises the importance of continued sexual activity across the lifespan, but links sexual function with overall health and encourages increased self-surveillance of, and medical attention to, l…
Medicalization and the Refashioning of Age-Related Limits on Sexuality
This article explores the convergence of sexual medicine and anti-aging medicine as they have refashioned standards of sexual functionality and reconstructed sexual life courses. Reversing the long-held stereotypes of asexual or post-sexual seniors, expectations of continued sexual functionality as an indicator of health in later life now underpin a growing medical and therapeutic industry. While more positive images of eldersex are certainly an …
Tracked and fit: FitBits, brain games, and the quantified aging body
Happily ever after? ‘Successful ageing’ and the heterosexual imaginary
‘Successful ageing’ has been a controversial concept in cultural gerontology, prompting critiques of its inherent individualism, neglect of structural inequalities and promotion of neoliberal strategies of self-care. This article aims at developing the critique of its heteronormative underpinnings. Drawing on cultural gerontology, feminist theory and queer theory, a critique of the rhetoric and visual representation of ‘successful ageing’ is deve…
Celebrity, ageing and the construction of ‘third age’ identities
This article explores celebrity as a point of articulation between consumer culture and the reconfiguration of ageing lifestyles and identities in contemporary culture – described by cultural gerontologists as the ‘Third Age’. We focus on ageing stars whose celebrity is used to promote a particular vision of successful ageing, describing the cultural basis and significance of this phenomenon through a case study of cover celebrities in Zoomer , a…
Climacteric Redux: (Re)medicalizing the Male Menopause
This article analyzes the contemporary construction of male menopause as a clinical disorder. While medical interest in a male climacteric has waxed and waned over the past century, the past decade has witnessed a surge of both scientific and commercial interest in its diagnosis and treatment. In explaining why this is the case, the author suggests that shifting cultural narratives of aging and sexuality, rather than any new scientific evidence, …
Sexual Medicine, Sexual Bodies and the ‘Pharmaceutical Imagination’
This paper analyzes contemporary clinical research on sexual dysfunctions to explore the biomedical construction of sexual bodies. The clinical and commercial success of Viagra as a treatment for erectile dysfunction intensified the search for biomedical explanations and solutions for an expanded range of sexual disorders in both women and men. I review significant shifts in scientific and cultural narratives of sexual problems, focusing on the e…
Encyclopedia of Social Theory
The Encyclopedia of Social Theory contains over 500 entries varying from concise definitions of key terms and short biographies of key theorists to comprehensive surveys of leading concepts, debates, themes and schools. The object of the Encyclopedia has been to give thorough coverage of the central topics in theoretical sociology as well as terms
The Quality of Manhood: Masculinity and Embodiment in the Sociological Tradition
This paper argues for the need to revisit classical sociological texts with a view to excavating the masculinity that inheres in these texts and saturates the concept of the social. Primarily through an examination of Durkheim and Simmel, it explores the strategies whereby masculine individuals could be released from corporeality and granted the sort of embodiment that allowed them to transcend their particularity and become social agents. It is …
Feminist theory and critical theory
Je passe en revue, dans cet article, certains problèmes clés des théories socialistes‐féministes de la reproduction de ľoppression des femmes; et j'appelle à un dialogue plus soutenu entre théorie féministe et ‘théorie critique’. Bien que cette dernière ait jusqu'à maintenant peu étudié les questions de sexe, on les trouve en filigrane dans les thèmes principaux de la théorie critique. De plus, ces questions représentent une illustration de choix…
Virtual roundtable discussion of ‘Revisioning ageing futures: Feminist, queer, crip and decolonial visions of a good old age’
Snips and Snails and Theorists' Tales: Classical Sociological Theory and the Making of ‘Sex
This article locates classical sociology within the context of widely circulating scientific 'truths' about sexed bodies, exploring how the emerging discipline of sociology both drew on and contributed to the construction of a scientifically grounded sexual dimorphism. Through an examination of Durkheim's theory of conjugal society and Weber's writings on the routinization of sexual conduct, the extent to which anxieties about masculine sexuality…
Feminist theory and critical theory
Je passe en revue, dans cet article, certains problèmes clés des théories socialistes‐féministes de la reproduction de ľoppression des femmes; et j'appelle à un dialogue plus soutenu entre théorie féministe et ‘théorie critique’. Bien que cette dernière ait jusqu'à maintenant peu étudié les questions de sexe, on les trouve en filigrane dans les thèmes principaux de la théorie critique. De plus, ces questions représentent une illustration de choix…
Communication as politics
Forever Functional: Sexual Fitness and the Ageing Male Body
Historically, male sexual fitness was framed by a patriarchal politics of life centred on regeneration, population and nation. In the later 20th century, as successful ageing became promoted by the lifestyle practices of an idealized healthy and active senior citizenry, traditional gerontocratic power over the sexual risks of youth gave way to a medical sexology concerned with sexual functionality across the lifecourse; in particular, erectility.…
Snips and Snails and Theorists' Tales: Classical Sociological Theory and the Making of ‘Sex
This article locates classical sociology within the context of widely circulating scientific 'truths' about sexed bodies, exploring how the emerging discipline of sociology both drew on and contributed to the construction of a scientifically grounded sexual dimorphism. Through an examination of Durkheim's theory of conjugal society and Weber's writings on the routinization of sexual conduct, the extent to which anxieties about masculine sexuality…
Hard Science: Gendered Constructions of Sexual Dysfunction in the `Viagra Age
This article locates Viagra, as both a biotechnology and a cultural event, in relation to shifting and specifically gendered interpretations of sexual function and dysfunction. While the clinical and market success of Viagra has prompted biomedicine and its popularizers to speak of a `new age' in human sexual relations, and accord it causal agency in effecting social change, I suggest that we might profit by attending to the social claims that un…
The Quality of Manhood: Masculinity and Embodiment in the Sociological Tradition
This paper argues for the need to revisit classical sociological texts with a view to excavating the masculinity that inheres in these texts and saturates the concept of the social. Primarily through an examination of Durkheim and Simmel, it explores the strategies whereby masculine individuals could be released from corporeality and granted the sort of embodiment that allowed them to transcend their particularity and become social agents. It is …
Is the Functional 'Normal'? Aging, Sexuality and the Bio-marking of Successful Living
This article raises the question of 'normality' today and the fracturing of health ideals along new lines of enablement and function. In particular the study asks if 'functional' and 'dysfunctional' are displacing 'normal' and 'pathological' as master biopolitical binarisms, and if so, what distinctions can be drawn between them. The discourse of 'function' and 'dysfunction' is certainly ubiquitous in two areas of research and practice: gerontolo…
Encyclopedia of Social Theory
The Encyclopedia of Social Theory contains over 500 entries varying from concise definitions of key terms and short biographies of key theorists to comprehensive surveys of leading concepts, debates, themes and schools. The object of the Encyclopedia has been to give thorough coverage of the central topics in theoretical sociology as well as terms
The New Virility: Viagra, Male Aging and Sexual Function
While it was once assumed that sexual function and virility naturally declined with age, the sexual capacities of the aging body have more recently been aligned to new performative standards, particularly for men. This article explores the history and contemporary dimensions of this new culture of virility. The first section reviews shifting scientific and cultural narratives of the sex/age problematic. The latter part of the article explores how…
Climacteric Redux: (Re)medicalizing the Male Menopause
This article analyzes the contemporary construction of male menopause as a clinical disorder. While medical interest in a male climacteric has waxed and waned over the past century, the past decade has witnessed a surge of both scientific and commercial interest in its diagnosis and treatment. In explaining why this is the case, the author suggests that shifting cultural narratives of aging and sexuality, rather than any new scientific evidence, …
Sexual Medicine, Sexual Bodies and the ‘Pharmaceutical Imagination’
This paper analyzes contemporary clinical research on sexual dysfunctions to explore the biomedical construction of sexual bodies. The clinical and commercial success of Viagra as a treatment for erectile dysfunction intensified the search for biomedical explanations and solutions for an expanded range of sexual disorders in both women and men. I review significant shifts in scientific and cultural narratives of sexual problems, focusing on the e…
Science, medicine and virility surveillance: Sexy Seniors' in the Pharmaceutical Imagination
While historically sex has been seen primarily as the prerogative of the young, more recently, the emphasis has been on the maintenance of active sexuality as a marker of successful ageing. A new cultural consensus appears to have emerged which not only emphasises the importance of continued sexual activity across the lifespan, but links sexual function with overall health and encourages increased self-surveillance of, and medical attention to, l…
Medicalization and the Refashioning of Age-Related Limits on Sexuality
This article explores the convergence of sexual medicine and anti-aging medicine as they have refashioned standards of sexual functionality and reconstructed sexual life courses. Reversing the long-held stereotypes of asexual or post-sexual seniors, expectations of continued sexual functionality as an indicator of health in later life now underpin a growing medical and therapeutic industry. While more positive images of eldersex are certainly an …
Celebrity, ageing and the construction of ‘third age’ identities
This article explores celebrity as a point of articulation between consumer culture and the reconfiguration of ageing lifestyles and identities in contemporary culture – described by cultural gerontologists as the ‘Third Age’. We focus on ageing stars whose celebrity is used to promote a particular vision of successful ageing, describing the cultural basis and significance of this phenomenon through a case study of cover celebrities in Zoomer , a…
Happily ever after? ‘Successful ageing’ and the heterosexual imaginary
‘Successful ageing’ has been a controversial concept in cultural gerontology, prompting critiques of its inherent individualism, neglect of structural inequalities and promotion of neoliberal strategies of self-care. This article aims at developing the critique of its heteronormative underpinnings. Drawing on cultural gerontology, feminist theory and queer theory, a critique of the rhetoric and visual representation of ‘successful ageing’ is deve…
Tracked and fit: FitBits, brain games, and the quantified aging body
Virtual roundtable discussion of ‘Revisioning ageing futures: Feminist, queer, crip and decolonial visions of a good old age’
Sociology (14 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Human sexuality (7 works) · Sexual function and dysfunction studies (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works)