Sex and Diversity in Later Life

Critical Perspectives
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4473-5540-3
Verlag: Policy Press

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hafford-Letchfield, Trish

Simpson, Paul

Reynolds, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Alterssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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

Reynolds, Paul
Paul Reynolds is Co-Convenor of the International Network for Sexual Ethics and Politics (INSEP) and an associate lecturer with The Open University.

Simpson, Paul
Paul Simpson is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester.

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.