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.
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 Foucaults 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
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.
