To date, very little research has been conducted into how men negotiateudmasculinities over the life course, and how health and ageing affect men'sudmasculinities. This thesis considers the importance of gender to men's healthudissues and develops a theoretical model to analyse how men develop strategies toudnegotiate masculinities, health and ageing over the life course, and the importanceudof the body to men's identities.udThis thesis also considers men's health issues and men's masculinities across audbroad range of ages. In Australian society, the smooth, lean, toned, youthful maleudbody has come to represent the culturally dominant ideal that personifiesudhegemonic masculinity (e.g., strong, hard, powerful, virile, competent). As men'sudbodies' age and shift further from the ideal, little is known about how they comeudto negotiate masculinity. Furthermore, how this transition affects their health andudwellbeing is currently under-explored.udHealth, in turn, may also be negotiated to protect a masculine identity. Little isudunderstood as to how and why men negotiate masculinities over the life course orudwhat this ultimately means to men's health more broadly. This thesis investigatesudthese issues by engaging in empirical research involving in-depth interviews withudmen from around Tasmania, Australia, and analysing the results to understandudwhat health and masculinity mean to men of different ages, and the ways in whichudeach impinges on the other over the course of men's lives.
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