Exiled to the Home: Masculinity and Ageing in Urban Mexico

Grandfathering as spatio-temporal practice: conceptualizing performances of ageing masculinities in contemporary familial carescapes

“…Both ageing and masculinity as intersecting social relations structure old men's practices and various inclusions and exclusions from a range of spaces, especially given that ageing masculinities conceptually at least, represents a shift or transition into subordinate masculinities (Calasanti 2004;Connell 1995;Varley and Blasco 2000) within a broader structure of gender relations.…”

老龄化社会中的地方和非正式照护①——地理老年学最新研究进展

“…As a recent study of older male spousal care-givers illustrated, despite adopting often novel strategies designed to maximise their wives'ability to cope, older male carers can find themselves excluded in a landscape deemed to be feminine and where their gender identity as men can be called into question (Milligan et al, 2013). Drawing on the experiences of even relatively fit and able older men, Varley et al(2000) noted how some can feel significantly alienated and divorced from their previous identity as a breadwinning male as they find themselves having to adapt to spending much of their later life within a territory deemed to be feminine.…”

Men’s experiences of state sponsored housing in South Africa: emerging issues and key questions

“…Atherton, May and Meth (all 2014) drawing on feminist research, explore domesticity, domestic work, homelessness, violence and the significance of home for masculine identity. Older men, particularly those retired from the world of work in Mexico are the focus of Varley & Blasco's (2000) study where they explore their living arrangements, their rising senses of redundancy and of being burdensome within the home and wider family, and their feelings of being 'exiled to the home' compounded by cramped living conditions (Varley & Blasco, 2000). This work points to the significance of masculinity in constructing men's relationships with their homes.…”

“…Studies of the geographies of masculinity, and masculinities within development studies, have grown extensively over the past decade with a number of key edited collections on the topic (see Cleaver, 2002;Cornwall et al, 2011;Gorman-Murray & Hopkins, 2014;van Hoven & Hӧrschelmann, 2005) but the focus is commonly on masculine identity, violence, sexualities and activism with very little published where the focus is explicitly masculinities, home and housing (although see Gorman-Murray, 2008; chapters by Atherton, May and Meth, all 2014;and Varley & Blasco, 2000). Atherton, May and Meth (all 2014) drawing on feminist research, explore domesticity, domestic work, homelessness, violence and the significance of home for masculine identity.…”

“…We argue here that this oversight is remarkable, given the centrality of housing in shaping men's sense of self, their assumptions about authority, financial security and safety. Men's emotional registers and constructions of masculinities in relation to the home have received some attention (Ahmet, 2013;Atherton, 2014;Meth, 2014;Gorman-Murray, 2008May, 2014;Varley & Blasco, 2000) yet as Varley and Blasco claim this is limited (2000, p. 116), and as we outline below, these important works focus less on the socio-economic realities of housing as a policy intervention in relation to men but rather on home as a socio-spatial construct. The policy backcloth of housing is central to our analysis, as South Africa's current state-subsidised housing programme is dramatically altering the urban landscape.…”