Ageing, Sex and Disability : New Aesthetics and Critical Perspectives.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

de Vries, Brian.

Series:

Sex and Intimacy in Later Life Series

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2026.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Cover

AGEING, SEX AND DISABILITY

Series Information

AGEING, SEX AND DISABILITY: New Aesthetics and Critical Perspectives

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables

Notes on editors and contributors

Editors

Contributors

Series editors' introduction

Note

References

Foreword

1 Introduction: Motives, themes, issues and chapter synopses

Introduction

Key concepts: disability, illness, aesthetics of eroticism

Overarching themes, issues and chapter contents

Part I: Identities

Part II: Representations, spaces and cultures

Part III: Law, policies and practices

Conclusion

References Texts

PART I Identities

2 From new possibilities to late-​onset affordances: reflections on lesbian experiences of ageing, disability and (non-​)sex

Methodology

Definition of disability

Lived lesbian disabled experience

Johanna

Karin

Annick

Discussion: late-​onset affordances

Funding

3 Ageing, disability and sex: older lesbians ageing into physical disability

The concept of ageing and disability

Intersectionality of age, disability, sexual orientation and sexuality identities

The no-​longer young lesbian body

The no-​longer able, ageing lesbian body: disability and function

Older lesbians as sexual beings

Toward a new aesthetic for disabled older lesbians

4 Old hen makes good broth: body practices, eroticism and disability in older binary trans women's bodies

Historical perspective

Body practices and the sense of femininity

Body practices in postmodernity: body territory

Bodily practices of binary female trans women

Hormone therapy

Soft tissue filler injections

Theoretical framework

Research method.

Body practices: the challenge of feminising the territorial body

The street, an extension of the body, identity and pleasure

Pain with meaning: grief and glory of the sentient being

Disability in binary trans-​female bodies

The experience of erotic life and disability in the bodies of binary trans women.

PART II Representations, spaces and cultures

5 'Vivas': a look at female ageing through art-​activism

Development

6 Aesthetics of eroticism in older people with dementia portrayed in contemporary cinema

The social construction of dementia: constraints on sexual expression

Approach to analysis

Cinematographic stories and the emergence of love and eroticism

Reconstructing models: emergent categories

Whose perspective is represented?

Continuities and discontinuities in relationships

The debts of love

Maintaining eroticism

Life journeys

7 Cripping sex as we age: caregiver memoirs and anti-​ableist approaches to sex

Research method

Theoretical framework: disability, ageing and sexual culture

Caregiving as an intimate act

Physicality takes on new importance

Confrontations with the medical gaze

Moving away from non-​disabled assumptions about what constitutes sex

Implications

8 Sexy, sick, grand daddies: cultural representations of cross-​generational intimacy and older gay men ageing with/​into disabilities

The May-​December trope and gay cross-​generational relations

The sexy daddy

The sick daddy

The grand daddy

9 Decoding the sexual aesthetics of illness, disability and later life: towards a Marxist critique

Introduction.

A radical approach to older, ill and disabled sexual agents

The value of a Marxist analysis

PART III Law, policies and practices

10 Sexuality and folly in old age: how far do rights go?

A three-​dimensional legal perspective about sexual rights in old age

Sexual ageism and supervening inequality in contexts of cognitive impairment: the sociological approach of sexual rights

The Argentinian and the international human rights legal sources: the normative dimension of sexual rights

General recommendations

For professionals

For residents

For families

Judicial decisions: the axiological perspectives of sexual rights

Sexual assistance: a multilevel challenge

11 Sexuality and dementia: navigating a grey area

Sexual expression as a dementia symptom: the phenomenon of inappropriate sexual behaviours

Dementia, sexuality and couple relationships

From the biomedical model of sexuality to personhood and citizenship

Sexual rights, older people and dementia

Law, sexuality and dementia: is consent always the key?

Towards a relational, practice-​based sexual citizenship

12 Coming with heart: sex work with older and disabled people

Background and context of the study

Study design

Findings

Sex workers

Care workers

Discussion

Acknowledgement

Notes

13 Ageism, gender difference and older physically disabled and learning disabled people as sexual citizens

The curse of compassionate ageism and ableism

Human rights: what human rights? Myths versus reality

'Mattering' matters

The ignored: intellectually disabled older people

Pornography, devotism, older sex workers and gerontophilia

'Participatory ideology'.

The 'connected community': discovering sexual citizenship

Towards a new aesthetic?

14 Is there sex after incontinence in later life? Towards a new aesthetic

What is incontinence?

Quality of life for people living with incontinence

Impact of incontinence on intimacy and sexual relationships

Relationships with helping professionals

15 Final reflections and overarching themes: new sexual aesthetics and older, disabled people

Overarching themes

Agency, critical reimagining and resistance

Relations, laws, policies and practices and a new aesthetics

Where do we go from here?

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-4473-7599-8

9781447375999

OCLC:

1574115317