Full Description
What if we reimagined ageing, illness and disability not as barriers to sexuality - but as starting points for new forms of desire, intimacy and pleasure?
This groundbreaking book challenges the silence and stigma surrounding the sexuality of older, ill and disabled people. Drawing from sociology, health studies, cultural theory and lived experience, the authors explore diverse expressions of sexuality that defy long-established views.
From queer ageing to sex work and legal rights, this collection offers bold, inclusive perspectives and policy ideas that centre pleasure, agency and dignity. A vital resource for academics, practitioners and anyone invested in social inclusion and justice.
Contents
Foreword by Brian de Vries
1. Introduction: Motives, themes, issues and chapter synopses - Ricardo Iacub, Paul Simpson and Trish Hafford- Letchfield
PART I: Identities
2. From new possibilities to late-onset affordances: reflections on lesbian experiences of ageing, disability and (non-)sex - Giulia Nazzaro, Nika Looman and Katrien De Graeve
3. Ageing, disability and sex: older lesbians ageing into physical disability - Debra A. Harley
4. Old hen makes good broth: body practices, eroticism and disability in older binary trans women's bodies - Cuauhtémoc Sánchez-Vega
PART II: Representations, spaces and cultures
5. 'Vivas': a look at female ageing through art-activism - Rosa Cattana
6. Aesthetics of eroticism in older people with dementia portrayed in contemporary cinema - Ricardo Iacub and Paul Simpson
7. Cripping sex as we age: caregiver memoirs and anti-ableist approaches to sex - Elizabeth Kleinfeld
8. Sexy, sick, grand daddies: cultural representations of cross-generational intimacy and older gay men ageing
with/into disabilities - Jami McFarland
9. Decoding the sexual aesthetics of illness, disability and later life: towards a Marxist critique - Paul Reynolds
PART III: Law, policies and practices
10. Sexuality and folly in old age: how far do rights go? - María Isolina Dabove
11. Sexuality and dementia: navigating a grey area - Josep Fabà and Feliciano Villar
12. Coming with heart: sex work with older and disabled people - Mark Henrickson and Patricia Morgan
13. Ageism, gender difference and older physically disabled and learning disabled people as sexual citizens - Mervyn Eastman
14. Is there sex after incontinence in later life? Towards a new aesthetic - Trish Hafford-Letchfield
15. Final reflections and overarching themes: new sexual aesthetics and older, disabled people - Paul Simpson, Trish Hafford-Letchfield and Ricardo Iacub
