Full Description
Despite increased awareness of sexual diversity, older people's accounts of sex and intimacy remain marginalised.
This edited volume addresses diversity in sexual and intimate experience later in life (50+) and captures international research and analysis relating to intersectional identities. Contributors explore how being older intersects with differences of ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class.
Offering a critical focus and original contribution to an emerging, although still relatively neglected field, this collection extends knowledge concerning intimacies, practices and pleasures for those thought to represent normative, non-normative and 'new normative' forms of sexual identification and expression.
Contents
Series Editor Introduction ‾ Paul Reynolds, Paul Simpson and Trish Hafford-Letchfield
Foreword ‾ Diana K. Kwok
Sex and intimacy in later life: a survey of the terrain ‾ Paul Reynolds, Paul Simpson and Trish Hafford-Letchfield
Sexual expression and pleasure among black minority ethnic older women ‾ Debra Harley
Sexual desires and intimacy needs in older persons and towards the end of life ‾ Karen Rennie
Heterosexual sex, love and intimacy in later life: what have older women got to say? ‾ Trish Hafford-Letchfield
Sex and Ageing in Older Heterosexual Men ‾ Josie Tetley and David Lee
Sex and Older Gay Men: An International Perspective ‾ Peter Robinson
Thinking the Unthinkable: Older Lesbians, Sex and Violence ‾ Megan Todd
Splitting hairs: Michel Foucault's 'heterotopia' and bisexuality in later life ‾ Christopher Wells
The age of rediscovery: what is it like to gender transition when you are 50 plus? ‾ Laura Scarrone Bonhomme
Aging Asexually: Exploring Desexualization and Aging Asexual Intimacies ‾ Ela Pryzbylo
Older people, sex and social class: unusual bedfellows? ‾ Paul Simpson
Final reflections: themes on sex and intimacy in later life ‾ Paul Reynolds, Paul Simpson and Trish Hafford-Letchfield
