1 Published as: *Sandberg, LJ. (2018) Dementia and the Gender Trouble?: theorising Dementia, Gendered Subjectivity and Embodiment. Journal of Aging Studies. 45(June)pp. 25-31 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2018.01.004. Title: Dementia and the Gender Trouble?: Theorising Dementia, Gendered Subjectivity and Embodiment Author: Linn J. Sandberg Contact details: Linn Sandberg, Department of Culture and Education Södertörn University, 141 89 Huddinge, Sweden Linn.sandberg@sh.se Phone: +4686084934 Abstract Despite person-centred approaches increasingly focusing on looking at the person in dementia instead of the pathology, the role of gender in dementia has been little explored. This article discusses how pervasive discourses on a loss of self and dementia as abject are interwoven with a de-gendering of persons with dementia. The cultural anxiety that dementia evokes in terms of loss of bodily and cognitive control could also be linked to a failure to normatively and intelligibly express gender when living with dementia. As a way to sustain personhood for people with dementia and challenge discourses on people with dementia as ‘non-people’, person-centred approaches have emphasised the collaborative work of carers, relatives and persons with dementia. Often implicitly, this also involves a ‘re-gendering’ of persons with dementia where gendered biographies and pasts are upheld and gendered embodied selfhood is maintained through, for example, dress, hair and other aspects of appearance. This re- gendering could be of great significance for people with dementia to become intelligible as