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Sex and diversity in later life : critical perspectives / edited by Trish Hafford-Letchfield, Paul Simpson and Paul Reynolds ; with a foreword by Diana K. Kwok.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Policy Press scholarship online.
- Policy Press scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Older people--Sexual behavior.
- Older people.
- Aging--Social aspects.
- Aging.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvi, 238 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Sex and Diversity in Later Life: Critical Perspectives
- Copyright information
- Series
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- List of figures and tables
- Notes on editors and contributors
- Note
- References
- Series editors' introduction
- Foreword
- 1 Sex and intimacy in later life: a survey of the terrain
- 2 Sexual expression and pleasure among black minority ethnic older women
- Introduction
- Contextualisation of sexuality of African American and BME women
- Sexual health
- Cultural context of sexual pleasure
- Methods of sexual pleasure
- Summary
- 3 Sexual desires and intimacy needs in older persons and towards the end of life
- Literature search strategy
- Sex and intimacy in older persons: the specialness of sex
- Sexual and intimate connections at the end of life: the spark that never dies
- Taking research, policy and practice to a new and sexier level
- Conclusion
- 4 Heterosexual sex, love and intimacy in later life: what have older women got to say?
- Theoretical concepts concerning heterosexuality
- Influences on older women's sexual and intimate relationships
- What does research tell us about older heterosexual women's sex lives?
- Theme one: social legitimacy for sexuality in later life
- Theme two: sexuality and health
- Theme three: penetrative sex in heterosexual relationships as hegemony
- Key messages from the literature
- Envisioning intimacy
- Concluding thoughts
- 5 Sex and ageing in older heterosexual men
- Background
- Methods
- Findings
- Sexual difficulties, health and ageing
- Relationships and sexual intimacy
- Reflecting back
- Discussion
- Weblinks
- 6 Sex and older gay men
- Background literature
- Methods.
- Discussion
- Effects of age/ageing
- Changed self-regard, sex appeal
- Changed sex drive
- Age preference
- 7 Thinking the unthinkable: older lesbians, sex and violence
- Violent times? LGBT+ abuse
- Boom(ers): an ageing time bomb?
- Methodology
- Sexual violence in older lesbians' relationships
- Telling sexual stories: the impact of hegemonic discourse
- Sexualised cultures and sexual abuse
- Civil partnerships and marriage: narratives of safety and danger
- 8 Splitting hairs: Michel Foucault's 'heterotopia' and bisexuality in later life
- Foucault's 'heterotopia' and bisexual intimacies in later life
- The heterotopia, older bisexuality and the ongoing crisis of definition
- "I treat everyone the same and I don't discriminate. Why do I need to know if someone is bisexual?": exploring the bitopia
- Utopia?
- Notes
- 9 The age of rediscovery: what is it like to gender transition when you are 50 plus?
- Gender diversity and transition
- Gender transition during midlife, why now?
- Transition in later life, the other adolescence
- Characteristics of the 50-plus population
- The impact of physical interventions in love, sex and intimacy
- Social aspects of physical transition
- 10 Ageing asexually: exploring desexualisation and ageing intimacies
- Ageing and desexualiaation
- Ageing, ageism, and racism
- Desexualisation as disgust
- Desexualisation and the spatialisation of disposability
- Challenging desexualisation
- Desexualisation and asexuality
- 'Successful ageing' and compulsory sexuality
- Rethinking intimacy
- Acknowledgements
- 11 Older people, sex and social class: unusual bedfellows?
- Defining social class.
- Older people and sex/intimacy: an incompatible relationship?
- Sex/uality and class: the working class other
- Older people, sex and class: theorising a way forward
- 12 Final reflections: themes on sex and intimacy in later life
- Overarching themes on sex and intimacy in later life
- The bases of later life sexuality/intimacy
- Influences of relationality and differentiation
- Later life as a position from which to challenge social expectations
- The need for policy and practice to support older people's sexuality
- The state of research in the field and whither a progressive approach to ageing, sex and sexuality in research and policy?
- Index
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Dec 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781447355434
- 1447355431
- 9781447355458
- 1447355458
- 9781447355427
- 1447355423
- OCLC:
- 1250630279
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