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East Asian men: masculinity, sexuality and desire

masculinities may well be ‘singleness,’ which has been of interest to queer theorists in recent years. A similar problem arises in the chapter on disability, which focuses on only one man, a man who suffers from Parkinson’s disease. But what about the experiences of the man who cared for his partner who died of AIDS, or what about the man who suffers from asthma? Each of these men, of course, engaged with illness and disability in various, but different, ways. Jackson, however, prefers to focus solely on the man suffering with Parkinson’s disease. What does it mean to live with a partner who is disabled and how does that effect and inform one’s conception of masculinity, especially in older age? In Exploring Aging Masculinities, Jackson offers an important intervention that challenges those working in men and masculinity studies to think critically, creatively, compassionately, and closely about age and its effects on men and masculinities, a topic that has for too long remained untouched by scholars in the field. However, as we move further and consider the question of aging masculinities, scholars should think more broadly to include men who do and do not fit the stereotypes of aging men. We might wish to draw on a wider range of approaches and theories, for instance, queer theory (which is largely absent from this work), and yet has much to offer to the study of men and masculinities (admittedly, the index does include queer theory, but there seems to be a conflation of queer theory with gay men rather than as a theory that challenges normative sexuality and gender). As the field of critical studies of men and masculinities itself continues to age, now marking nearly 30 or 40 years of sustained research (depending upon how one counts), the time has come to think about older age.