BookAlexandra C.H. Nowakowski, J.E. Sumerau, and Nik M. Lampe.
Summary: This book utilizes collaborative autoethnography to examine transformations in health and aging among queer, trans, and intersex people in society. To this end, the authors each utilize their lived experiences as queer, trans, and/or intersex people to discuss inequalities and norms in U.S. healthcare. Further, they elaborate upon some ways U.S. healthcare systems may become more inclusive of queer, trans, and intersex populations over time. In so doing, they utilize the autoethnographic cases to illustrate and describe the complexities of sex, gender, and sexualities in health and aging as well as the ways such intricacies facilitate societal inequalities in health and aging.
Contents:
Introduction
You're rubber, I'm glue : navigating changing meanings of safe sex with cystic fibrosis
Rejecting simplicity in favor of embracing the complexity of multifaceted health and aging
Making sense of healthy embodiment after realization of intersex status.