Chris Gilleard and Paul Higgs (2013). Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment. London and New York: Anthem Press, 198 pp. ISBN 978 0 85728 329 0 (hardback)

In gerontology and broader academic circles, the ageing body remains largely under-theorized.Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment addresses this critical lacuna in the literature by proposing an intervention into how we think about the ageing body and understand embodied everyday experiences of later life.Chris Gilleard and Paul Higgs craft a nuanced argument drawing upon the corporeality of later life as well as embodiment of the social.Two overarching concepts structure their discussion: embodied identities (e.g.gender, race, disability and sexuality) and embodied practices (e.g.sex, cosmetics/fashion, fitness/exercise and aspirational medicine).Gilleard and Higgs frame the ageing body as a site of embodied and contested difference, which generates alternative understandings of how the body is performed, challenged and negotiated.This book represents a longoverdue step advancing our knowledge of the complex and multifaceted relationship between the body and ageing.Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment draws on historical impacts of the 1960s: a key period that cultivated advances in the sociology of the body.The rise of counter-cultures and politics of representation in this time period

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