Prof. Barbara L. Marshall

arbara L. Marshall is Professor of Sociology at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, where she teaches in the areas of sexuality, gender, the body, and social theory. Her books include Engendering Modernity (Polity, 1994); Configuring Gender (Broadview, 2000), Engendering the Social (ed. with Anne Witz, Open University Press, 2004) and the Routledge Encyclopedia of Social Theory (with Austin Harrington and Hans Peter Mueller, Routledge, 2006). She has written extensively on the medicalization of sexuality, the pharmaceutical reconfiguration of sexual life courses, and the emergence of sexual functionality as an indicator of successful aging. Her current research continues to explore the ways gender and sexuality are embedded in accounts of aging bodies across a range of different contexts, including sexual medicine, hormone therapies, anti-aging treatments, and public health promotion, and is opening up new questions about the sexualization of the third age.