Senior Femininity and Senior Masculinity? Gender Identities of Elderly Women and Men in Poland
Senior Femininity and Senior Masculinity? Gender Identities of Elderly Women and Men in Poland

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the results of biographical research involving women and men over 60, with a focuson the issue of gender identity and how it changes during aging. The study provided answers to three main researchquestions: Are there distinguishable patterns of forming one’s own gender identity that are specific to senior age,and if so, which ones? Do the patterns change during the ageing process, and if so, how? What determines howa person experiences the transformation of their gender identity in senior age? The article also discusses the wayselderly men and women define their own femininity or masculinity and the significance in this regard of suchbiographical experiences as losing a spouse, retirement, and bodily aging. There is also an attempt at a typologyof senior femininities and senior masculinities

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