On not getting it : narration, sex and ageing

M. Hurley

For all its advances, Social Science is still methodologically constrained in its capacity to incorporate lived subjectivities into its discussions of sexuality. Auto/biographical writing tends to be used to illustrate analytic categories, rather than as a form of analysis in its own right. 'On Not Getting It' is a ficto-critical discussion of available speaking positions for the narration of sex, gayness and middle age. It embodies theory in the reflexivity of the narrative form and uses tropes of touch, lighting, body hair, anger, grief, distraction and pleasure to query the foreclosure of sex that occurs in narratives of good health.