Ageing is not for men? Active ageing and sexual enhancement in elderly people’s experience

Apresentação

The seminar reconstructs some stages of a long research path focused on how heterosexual men do their masculinities through sexual practices in Italy.

Nota biográfica

Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto is Associate Professor in Sociology of Culture at the Departiment of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Turin, Italy. She is currently teaching “Sociology of Cultural Practices” to Bachelor students of Intercultural Communication and “Gender, Body and Sexuality” to Master students of Sociology and Cultural Anthropology. Her research topics includes bodily practices (for instances, emerging lifestyle sports such as parkour) and the medicalization of gender and sexuality (focusing in particular on the social impact of the advent of Viagra and other sexuopharmaceuticals). She is member of the European Sexual Medicine Network and has publicated extensively on masculinity, medicalization and bodily practices. She is Visiting at CES in the month of May 2023.

The event is hosted by the research project REMEMBER – Vivências de Pessoas LGBTQ Idosas no Portugal Democrático (1974-2020) [ FCT | ref.ª: PTDC/SOC-ASO/4911/2021) and TRACE – Tracing Queer Citizenship over Time: Ageing, ageism and age-related LGBTI+ politics in Europe (ERC Grant Agreement 101044915), in collaboration with the GPS-CES – Grupo de Pesquisa em Sexualidades