The Aging Male Body as a Contested Site of Privilege: Literary Representations in Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres and Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge

2020 ◽

pp. 178-196

Author(s):

Kelvin Ke

Keyword(s):

Hegemonic Masculinity ◽

Male Body ◽

Aging Male ◽

James Bond ◽

Action Cinema ◽

Action Hero

The aging action hero has become an important figure in post-millennial action cinema. Its significance can be seen in how aging heroes can be seen in such franchises like The Expendables (2009 – 2013), Taken (2008 – 2014), The Fast and the Furious (2001 – 2017), Mission Impossible (1995 – 2018), and James Bond (2006 – 2015). In the following chapter, it is argued that the aging action hero and the aging male body is significant because they provide an opportunity to rehabilitate the tropes of hegemonic masculinity and the indestructible male body by emphasizing the benefits of the aging male body and where male toxicity is replaced by wisdom and maturity; egocentricity is replaced by allocentrism. As a result, the presence of the aging hero shows the dynamism of action cinema in offering different and alternative visions of heroism and heroes.

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Chapter 9: Forever Functional: Sexual Fitness and the Aging Male Body

Cultural Aging ◽

10.3138/9781442602083-011 ◽

2005 ◽

pp. 161-187

Author(s):

Barbara L. Marshall ◽

Stephen Katz

Keyword(s):

Male Body ◽

Aging Male

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‘‘To Oldie Go”: From James T. Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard to Samuel Lord and the Reconstruction of the Aging Male Body in the Final Frontier

Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Fiction ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-71596-0_6 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 77-92

Author(s):

Ángel Mateos-Aparicio Martín-Albo

Keyword(s):

Male Body ◽

Aging Male

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Light and electron microscopic investigation of adenohypophyses of germfree, food-restricted, and germfree-food restricted aging, male lobund-wistar rats

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100103826 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 46 ◽

pp. 352-353

Author(s):

G. Ilse ◽

K. Kovacs ◽

N. Ryan ◽

T. Sano ◽

L. Stefaneanu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Wistar Rats ◽

Microscopic Investigation ◽

Electron Microscopic Investigation ◽

Aging Male ◽

Sprague Dawley ◽

Electron Microscopic ◽

Sprague Dawley Rats ◽

Old Rats ◽

Ad Libitum ◽

Microscopic Findings

Germfree state and food restriction have been shown to increase life span and delay tumor occurrence in rats. We report here the histologic, immunocytochemical and electron microscopic findings of adenohypophyses of aging, male Lobund-Wistar rats raised at Lobund Laboratories. In our previous study, the morphologic changes in the adenohypophyses of old rats have been extensively investigated by histology, immunocytochemistry and electron microscopy. Lactotroph adenomas were frequent in Long-Evans and Sprague-Dawley rats, whereas gonadotroph adenomas were frequent in Sprague-Dawley and Wistar rats.Male Lobund-Wistar rats were divided into four groups: 1) conventional, which were raised under normal non-germfree environment and received food ad libitum; 2) germfree-food ad libitum; 3) conventional environment-food restricted and 4) germfree-food restricted. The adenohypophyses were removed from 6-month-, 18-month- and 30-month-old rats. For light microscopy, adenohypophyses were fixed in formalin and embedded in paraffin.

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Assessing Sexual Dysfunction, Part 1: Male Sexual Dysfunction

Guides Newsletter ◽

10.1001/amaguidesnewsletters.2016.marapr01 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 3-8

Author(s):

Seth D. Cohen ◽

Steven Mandel ◽

David B. Samadi

Keyword(s):

Sexual Dysfunction ◽

Health Care Professionals ◽

Laboratory Testing ◽

Aging Male ◽

Testosterone Deficiency ◽

Subjective Complaint ◽

Validated Questionnaire ◽

Male Sexual Dysfunction ◽

Multiple Health

Abstract To properly assess men and women with sexual dysfunction, evaluators should take a biopsychosocial approach that may require consultation with multiple health care professionals from various fields in order to get to the root of the sexual dysfunction; this multidisciplinary methodology offers the best chance of successful treatment. For males, this article focuses on erectile dysfunction (ED) and hypogonadism. The initial evaluation of ED involves a thorough case history, preferably taken from the patient and partner, physical examination, and proper laboratory and diagnostic tests, including an acknowledgment of the subjective complaint. The diagnosis is established on the basis of an individual's report of the consistent inability to attain and maintain an erection sufficient to permit satisfactory sexual intercourse. Initial workups for ED should entail a detailed history that can be obtained from a validated questionnaire such as the International Index of Erectile Function and the Sexual Health Inventory for Men. Hypogonadism is evaluated using the validated Androgen Deficiency in the Aging Male questionnaire and laboratory testing for testosterone deficiency. Treatments logically can begin with the least invasive and then progress to more invasive strategies after appropriate counseling. The last and most important treatment component when caring for men with sexual dysfunction—and, arguably, the least practiced—is close follow-up.

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