Sex and Diversity in Later Life: Critical Perspectives

Description

Addressing diversity in sexual and intimate experience later in life (50+), this collection explores how being older intersects with ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class, and extends knowledge concerning intimacies, practices and pleasures for those thought to represent normative forms of sexual identification and expression. 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.

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.

"This much-needed book offers multiple pathways to understanding the richness and diversity of the sexual and intimate lives of older people. It sets an agenda we can no longer ignore." Jeffrey Weeks, author of Between Worlds (2021) "Accepting as a given intimacy in later life, this exciting new text explores a diversity of experiences, spanning ethnicity, gender, class and sexuality, making it essential reading for all." Damien W. Riggs, Flinders University