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Book SynopsisAddressing 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.
Table of ContentsSeries 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
