Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to examine the spatiality of the theoretically paradoxical performances of ageing domestic masculinities. I do this through an analysis of 31 qualitative, semi-structured interview narratives obtained from men who are grandfathers in the UK. I argue that these men’s grandfathering practices, and consequently their performances of ageing masculinities, are simultaneously intersectional, relational and situated and are significant to the material and social relations that shape the home. Results demonstrate that men negotiate the intersections of their masculinities and ageing in multiple and variable ways that are spatially constituted.