Sallie Westwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 95173 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sallie Westwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sallie |
| FAMILY NAME | Westwood |
| SIGNATURE | WESTWOOD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keele University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3875-9584 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 220 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
“Double Trouble”: Menopausal Relationship Complications Experienced by Women in Same-Sex Couples
Despite growing awareness about the significance of menopause in women’s lives, there is very limited research on its impact upon their relationships, especially in relation to women in same-sex relationships. This article reports on a small-scale research project with twelve lesbian/queer identifying women who had experienced/were experiencing menopause transitions, exploring the impact on same-sex relationships. The women’s narratives suggested…
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) menopause: Literature review, knowledge gaps and research agenda
There is growing interest in menopause discrimination in healthcare, the workplace and beyond. However, there is a dearth of research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) experiences of the menopause. This article reports on a scoping review of the recent literature which identified a very limited number of articles and a wide range of knowledge gaps. This is discussed in relation to LGBTQ+ wider health, healthcare and workpl…
You Have the Right to Be Respected in Death, Just as in Life’: LGBTQ+ Funeral Providers in the UK – Pursuing Social Justice or the “Pink Pound”
The funeral market is changing, adapting to increasing personalisation and diversification of ceremonies. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ+) people in the UK have increasing expectations of equitable service delivery, including in relation to funerals. However, they experience inequalities in palliative and end-of-life care, and anticipate associated barriers to equitable funeral provision. Concerns relate to funeral providers' actu…
A bloody mess? UK regulation of menopause discrimination and the need for reform
This article considers the regulation of menopause‐related discrimination in the workplace. Many menopausal women experience profound workplace inequalities, often connected with the intersection of ageism and sexism. The United Kingdom Parliament's Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) recently recommended that the government consult about a new protected characteristic, ‘menopause’, and that Section 14 of the Equality Act 2010 (EqA) on dual disc…
“People with faith-based objections might display homophobic behaviour or transphobic behaviour”: Older LGBTQ people’s fears about religious organisations and staff providing long-term care
Older lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) people are concerned that their needs will not be recognised, understood or met in older age care spaces. Some are especially worried about care provided by religious care organisations and/or staff with negative beliefs about LGBTQ people and their lives. While these issues have been raised at the margins of previous research, there has not, until now, been a study which has focussed upon the…
“It’s the not being seen that is most tiresome”: Older women, invisibility and social (in)justice
Older women experience intersectional discrimination at the nexus of ageism and sexism. This is embodied, women's aging bodies being culturally devalued within youth-privileging cultures and the hyper-sexualization of younger, able-bodied, women. Older women often face the dilemma of attempting to mask the signs of aging or aging "authentically" but encountering heightened stigma, prejudice, and discrimination. Very old women in the fourth age wh…
He’s a Gay, He’s Going to Go to Hell: Negative Nurse Attitudes Towards LGBTQ People on a UK Hospital Ward: A Single Case Study Analysed in Regulatory Contexts
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and/or queer (LGBTQ) people experience profound health and social care inequalities. Research suggests that staff with negative attitudes towards LGBTQ people, are more likely to hold strong, traditional, religious beliefs. This article reports on a single case study with a newly qualified UK nurse who has since left the National Health Service. This is based on a single interview taken from a larger dataset derived …
Physical and mental well-being, risk and protective factors among older lesbians /gay women in the United Kingdom during the initial Covid-19 2020 lockdown
This article reports on a subset of findings from a recent UK survey of the impact of COVID-19 on older LGBT+ people in the UK. It considers the responses of 149 lesbian/gay women (137 cisgender, 12 trans) to questions relating to physical and mental health and wellbeing. Findings indicate that those women - in couples and singles - who were happy with their living circumstances pre-COVID showed stoicism, adaptability, and determined positivity i…
Religious‐based negative attitudes towards LGBTQ people among healthcare, social care and social work students and professionals: A review of the international literature
There is a dearth of research on how negative religious attitudes towards LGBTQ people inform professional practice. This paper reports on a scoping review of 70 selected studies from 25 different countries. It explores key issues and knowledge gaps regarding the delivery of services to LGBTQ adults by religious healthcare, social care and social work organisations and/or practitioners with faith-based objections to LGBTQ people and their lives. …
Can religious social workers practice affirmatively with LGBTQ service recipients? An exploration within the regulatory context
Tensions between religious freedoms and lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) rights have evolved from debates about sinful deviance to competing equality claims. There is a growing debate, originally in the US, but emerging in the UK, about whether religious social workers, particularly those holding fundamentalist Christian beliefs, can deliver affirmative, anti-oppressive services to LGBTQ people. This is important because over two-f…
Unheard voices: A qualitative study of LGBT+ older people experiences during the first wave of the Covid‐19 pandemic in the UK
This paper reports findings from a qualitative study into the immediate impact of social distancing measures on the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT+) older people (≥60 years) living in the UK during the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic. It draws on in-depth interviews with 17 older people and 6 key informants from LGBT+ community-based organisations, exploring the strategies used to manage their situations, how they respond…
The myth of ‘older LGBT+’ people: Research shortcomings and policy/practice implications for health/care provision
Older LGBT+ health inequalities in the UK: Setting a research agenda
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans+ (LGBT+) people report poorer health than the general population and worse experiences of healthcare particularly cancer, palliative/end-of-life, dementia and mental health provision. This is attributable to: (a) social inequalities, including ‘minority stress’; (b) associated health-risk behaviours (eg, smoking, excessive drug/alcohol use, obesity); (c) loneliness and isolation, affecting physical/mental health a…
Asset-based approaches, older people and social care: An analysis and critique
Asset-based thinking is increasingly prevalent in health policy and is to be found also in discourses on social care. This article explores and critiques the applicability of asset-based approaches to social care for older people, using Carol Bacchi's analytical framework to consider developments in the United Kingdom especially. The problem construction, assumptions and suggested solutions underpinning an asset-based approach are considered in t…
Religion, sexuality, and (in)equality in the lives of older lesbian, gay, and bisexual people in the United Kingdom
This article explores how older lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people in the United Kingdom engage with religion in later life. Drawing on research with older persons who are LGB and with activists, it explores religious spaces as sites of both inclusion and exclusion, historically and in the present day. Particular consideration is given to the equality implications, in the form of parity of participation, including in the context of religious…
Introduction to “housing, care and support for older lesbians, gay, bisexual andtrans* people”
Introduction to "housing, care and support for older lesbians, gay, bisexual and trans* people
Gender and older LGBT* housing discourse: The marginalised voices of older lesbians, gay and bisexual women
Purpose This paper is a conceptual discussion of the marginalisation of the voices of older lesbians, gay and bisexual (LGB) women, within the collective discourse of “older LGBT* housing”. The purpose of this paper is to critically interrogate its (in)equality implications and to consider ways in which they might be overcome
Older Lesbians, Gay Men and the ‘Right to Die’ Debate: ‘I Always Keep a Lethal Dose of Something, Because I don’t Want to Become an Elderly Isolated Person’
This article considers the ‘right to die’ debate from the perspectives of older lesbians and gay men, drawing upon data gathered for a PhD in law. My argument is that older lesbians and gay men are multiply disadvantaged (a) by an increased risk of feeling that life is not worth living due to affective inequalities (inadequate informal and formal social support) and (b) by a denial of access to the right to die both under such circumstances and/o…
LGBT* ageing in the UK: Spatial inequalities in older age housing/care provision
Older lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans* (LGBT*) people are extremely concerned about older age housing and social care provision, perceived as ill equipped to meet their needs. Some want gender/sexuality specific housing/housing with care. While such projects exist in Europe, the USA, Australia and Canada, there are none in the United Kingdom. The lack of ‘LGBT-friendly’ mainstream provision and of alternative specialist services in the UK, produ…
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Aging
Complicating Kinship and Inheritance: Older Lesbians’ and Gay Men’s Will-Writing in England
We see it as being heterosexualised, being put into a care home’: Gender, sexuality and housing/care preferences among older LGB individuals in the UK
This paper considers the lack of choice in sheltered housing and residential/nursing care provision for older lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) individuals in the UK. While there is a growing body of knowledge about their concerns about current options, the precise kinds of alternative provision which older LGB individuals would prefer are not yet well understood. This article reports on a qualitative study conducted in 2012 which aimed to explore …
Viva: Women and Popular Protest in Latin America.
Youth Work: Preparation for practice
Professional practice is at the heart of youth work training but integrating the theory learned in class with the reality of placements can sometimes require extra support. This comprehensive textbook is designed to help students working with young people become competent and ethical practitioners, able to reflect on their learning and interventions in young people’s lives. Divided into three parts, this core text: provides an understanding of an…
Researching Older Lesbians: Problems and Partial Solutions
There is a lack of research about older lesbians, who can be considered not only a "hidden population" but also a population in hiding. Yet older lesbians hold vital historical and cultural narratives that are, in turn, the heritage of younger lesbians. They also have much to contribute to understandings about gender, sexuality and aging, and to their currently unmet needs in terms of age-related housing, health, and social care provision. This a…
Viva: Women and Popular Protest in Latin America.
Enterprising Women
Enterprising Women brings together black and white British women in a collection that confronts stereotypes of black British women and previous accounts of their lives
At Work in Homes: Household Workers in World Perspective
We see it as being heterosexualised, being put into a care home’: Gender, sexuality and housing/care preferences among older LGB individuals in the UK
This paper considers the lack of choice in sheltered housing and residential/nursing care provision for older lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) individuals in the UK. While there is a growing body of knowledge about their concerns about current options, the precise kinds of alternative provision which older LGB individuals would prefer are not yet well understood. This article reports on a qualitative study conducted in 2012 which aimed to explore …
Asset-based approaches, older people and social care: An analysis and critique
Asset-based thinking is increasingly prevalent in health policy and is to be found also in discourses on social care. This article explores and critiques the applicability of asset-based approaches to social care for older people, using Carol Bacchi's analytical framework to consider developments in the United Kingdom especially. The problem construction, assumptions and suggested solutions underpinning an asset-based approach are considered in t…
Enterprising Women: Ethnicity, Economy and Gender Relations
Unheard voices: A qualitative study of LGBT+ older people experiences during the first wave of the Covid‐19 pandemic in the UK
This paper reports findings from a qualitative study into the immediate impact of social distancing measures on the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT+) older people (≥60 years) living in the UK during the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic. It draws on in-depth interviews with 17 older people and 6 key informants from LGBT+ community-based organisations, exploring the strategies used to manage their situations, how they respond…
My Friends are my Family’: An argument about the limitations of contemporary law's recognition of relationships in later life
Current law and social policy in the various UK legal systems privilege the conjugal couple, biological and filial relationships. Friendship remains on the margins of regulatory recognition. Yet friendship is of growing significance in contemporary social relationships. This is particularly so for older people, especially older lesbian, gay and bisexual people. This paper explores the place of friendship in key areas of law and social policy rela…
Can religious social workers practice affirmatively with LGBTQ service recipients? An exploration within the regulatory context
Tensions between religious freedoms and lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) rights have evolved from debates about sinful deviance to competing equality claims. There is a growing debate, originally in the US, but emerging in the UK, about whether religious social workers, particularly those holding fundamentalist Christian beliefs, can deliver affirmative, anti-oppressive services to LGBTQ people. This is important because over two-f…
Older LGBT+ health inequalities in the UK: Setting a research agenda
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans+ (LGBT+) people report poorer health than the general population and worse experiences of healthcare particularly cancer, palliative/end-of-life, dementia and mental health provision. This is attributable to: (a) social inequalities, including ‘minority stress’; (b) associated health-risk behaviours (eg, smoking, excessive drug/alcohol use, obesity); (c) loneliness and isolation, affecting physical/mental health a…
Complicating Kinship and Inheritance: Older Lesbians’ and Gay Men’s Will-Writing in England
A real romance: Gender, ethnicity, trust and risk in the Indian diamond trade
This article examines the complex relationship between gender and ethnicity in the Indian diamond trade. Using an analysis of the marketing and consumption of diamonds in relation to the practices of the trade, the article argues for the embeddedness of gender relations and genderic discourses within the trade. The essay focuses upon the role of the Jain community and the ways in which trust relations are central to the architecture of the trade.…
Re-Branding Britain: Sociology, Futures and Futurology
This paper argues that notions of the future and social change have been central to the sociological enterprise since its inception. However, sociology developed with the modern project and the rise of nation-states. This is reflected in the way that sociology has consistently taken for granted the geography of the nation-state as a basic organising principle for the understanding of social formations, producing `national' sociologies. Thus, whil…
Gender and older LGBT* housing discourse: The marginalised voices of older lesbians, gay and bisexual women
Purpose This paper is a conceptual discussion of the marginalisation of the voices of older lesbians, gay and bisexual (LGB) women, within the collective discourse of “older LGBT* housing”. The purpose of this paper is to critically interrogate its (in)equality implications and to consider ways in which they might be overcome
Diamond Time: Constructing Time, Constructing Markets in the Diamond Trade
This article examines the ways in which time is revisioned within the marketing discourses of the diamond trade. Time, it is argued, is a key component in the ways in which consumers are interpellated as buyers of diamonds. The article explores a series of time `frames' in order to excavate the ways in which time is used in marketing rhetoric and strategies. Crucial to the strategy is the rupture between labour time and `diamond time' which conce…
Complex Choreography
Using relevant theoretical approaches, this article seeks ways in which to consider the conditions of existence of a politics of recognition through the elaboration of 'regimes of recognition'. The 'regimes of recognition' are developed through an understanding of decentred political and social formations that, nevertheless, foreground a series of sites that are central to the politics of recognition: democracy, citizenship and the nation. This a…
Power/Knowledge: The Politics of Transformative Research
The myth of ‘older LGBT+’ people: Research shortcomings and policy/practice implications for health/care provision
Older Lesbians, Gay Men and the ‘Right to Die’ Debate: ‘I Always Keep a Lethal Dose of Something, Because I don’t Want to Become an Elderly Isolated Person’
This article considers the ‘right to die’ debate from the perspectives of older lesbians and gay men, drawing upon data gathered for a PhD in law. My argument is that older lesbians and gay men are multiply disadvantaged (a) by an increased risk of feeling that life is not worth living due to affective inequalities (inadequate informal and formal social support) and (b) by a denial of access to the right to die both under such circumstances and/o…
LGBT* ageing in the UK: Spatial inequalities in older age housing/care provision
Older lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans* (LGBT*) people are extremely concerned about older age housing and social care provision, perceived as ill equipped to meet their needs. Some want gender/sexuality specific housing/housing with care. While such projects exist in Europe, the USA, Australia and Canada, there are none in the United Kingdom. The lack of ‘LGBT-friendly’ mainstream provision and of alternative specialist services in the UK, produ…
Researching Older Lesbians: Problems and Partial Solutions
There is a lack of research about older lesbians, who can be considered not only a "hidden population" but also a population in hiding. Yet older lesbians hold vital historical and cultural narratives that are, in turn, the heritage of younger lesbians. They also have much to contribute to understandings about gender, sexuality and aging, and to their currently unmet needs in terms of age-related housing, health, and social care provision. This a…
Constructing the Other: Minorities, the State and Adult Education in Europe
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Learning and Working: A study of women on the shopfloor
(1984). Learning and Working: a study of women on the shopfloor. Studies in the Education of Adults: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 3-19
All day, every day: Factory and Family in the Making of Women's Lives
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Constructing the Other: Minorities, the State and Adult Education in Europe
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Milton J. Esman and Itamar Rabinovich (eds), ETHNICITY, PLURALISM, AND THE STATE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1988, 304 pp., $35.00 cloth, $12.95 paper. Akbar S. Ahmed, DISCOVERING ISLAM, MAKING SENSE OF MUSLIM HISTORY AND SOCIETY, London: Routledge, 1988, 251 pp., £9.99 (paper). Edmund Burke, III and Ira M. Lapidus (eds), ISLAM, POLITICS, AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, London: I. B. Tauris, 1988, 332 pp., £29.50. Asaf …
Women Assemble: Women Workers and the New Industries in Inter-War Britain
At Work in Homes: Household Workers in World Perspective
Power/Knowledge: The Politics of Transformative Research
Gendering Diaspora: Space, Politics, and South Asian Masculinities in Britain
Companeras: Voices from the Latin American Women's Movement
Remaking the Nation: Identity and Politics in Latin America
Remaking the Nation presents new ways of thinking about the nation, nationalism and national identities. Drawing links between popular culture and indigenous movements, issues of 'race' and gender, and ideologies of national identity, the authors draw on their work in Latin America to illustrate their retheorisation of the politics of nationalism. This engaging exploration of contemporary politics in a postmodern, post new-world-order uncovers a …
Remaking the Nation: Place, Identity and Politics in Latin America
Remaking the Nation: Place, Identity and Politics in Latin America
A real romance: Gender, ethnicity, trust and risk in the Indian diamond trade
This article examines the complex relationship between gender and ethnicity in the Indian diamond trade. Using an analysis of the marketing and consumption of diamonds in relation to the practices of the trade, the article argues for the embeddedness of gender relations and genderic discourses within the trade. The essay focuses upon the role of the Jain community and the ways in which trust relations are central to the architecture of the trade.…
Sociology (49 works) · Political science (39 works) · Gender Studies (28 works) · Psychology (22 works) · Law (18 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (18 works) · Gender Studies (17 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Lesbian (13 works) · Human sexuality (12 works)