- Detailed Table of Contents
- Editorial
- Roberta Maierhofer: Generations Connecting: Alzheimer's Disease and Changes of Cultural Values
- David Vella: The Houellebecq Cure. All Malady Will End in the Neohuman
- Aagje Swinnen: Never Too Old To Learn or Rebel. Two Old Ladies (Twee oude vrouwtjes)
- Anthony Todd (Review): Srole, Carole. “Transcribing Class and Gender: Masculinity and Femininity in Nineteenth- century Courts and Offices”.
- Sarah Imhoff (Review): Roden, Frederick (ed.). “Jewish/Christian/Queer: Crossroads and Identities. Queer Interventions.”
The notion of ageing within western culture is informed by highly ambivalent associations. While on the one hand old age seemingly speaks of a mature and accomplished self awareness, warranting a stabilised identity through the accumulation of experience and memory, age on the other hand is linked to the fears of fading health, the gradual reduction of physical capability and ultimately death. The assumed dwindling of one's "sex appeal" and sexual desire additionally marks this stage of life as a noteworthy perspective, from which to look at prevailing ideas of gender and sexual identity.
