Prostate Cancer, Sexual Health, and Ageing Masculinities: Exploring the Achilles' Heel of Men - Couverture rigide

Andreasson, Jesper; Johansson, Thomas

 
9783031530388: Prostate Cancer, Sexual Health, and Ageing Masculinities: Exploring the Achilles' Heel of Men

Synopsis

This book provides a rich, multidimensional analysis of how prostate cancer is lived, treated, and perceived by different actors through the stages of care, rehabilitation, and recovery. Furthermore, it focuses on how side effects, such as urinary leakage and impotence, affects the construction of masculinity. Though the book foregrounds men treated for prostate cancer, it also includes the voices of partners and health care professionals, such as urologists, contact nurses, and sexual health counsellors. The focus is on both phenomenological aspects of prostate cancer - how the disease affects men's self-perception and lifestyle - and on sociological aspects - that is, how gender and masculinity are understood and negotiated in social situations/interactions. Situated within the field of critical studies on men and masculinity the book engages in an intersectional analysis of the relationship between prostate cancer, class, and ageing masculinities, as well as providing an analysis of the complex relational triad created when voices of treated men, their partners, and health care professionals are brought together.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jesper Andreasson is Professor of Sport Science at Linnaeus University, Sweden. He has published extensively in the field of gender/body studies, family life and masculinity theory, and the sociology of sport. Thomas Johansson is Professor of Pedagogy at Gothenburg University, Sweden. He is one of the key researchers in the field of men and masculinities in the Nordic countries.

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9783031530418: Prostate Cancer, Sexual Health, and Ageing Masculinities: Exploring the Achilles' Heel of Men

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  3031530411 ISBN 13 :  9783031530418
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2025
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