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.

Les mer
Addressing diversity in sexual and intimate experience later in life (50+), this collection explores how being older intersects with ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class. This original text extends knowledge concerning intimacies, practices and pleasures for those thought to represent normative forms of sexual identification and expression.
Les mer

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

Les mer

Addresses the richness and diversity of sexuality in later lives, and focuses on intimacies and pleasures to provide an original contribution to current literature;

Captures international research and analysis relating to intersectional identities;

International contributors from US, UK and Australia.

Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781447355403
Publisert
2021-05-27
Utgiver
Vendor
Policy Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, G, 06, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Om bidragsyterne

Paul Simpson has lectured at several northwest universities, including the Department of Sociology at the University of Manchester, and is currently an independent academic.

Paul Reynolds is Co-Convenor of the International Network for Sexual Ethics and Politics (INSEP) and Associate Lecturer with The Open University.

Trish Hafford-Letchfield is Professor of Social Work at the University of Strathclyde.