Overview

Literature on sex, intimacy and sexuality in later life has been heavily influenced by perspectives from more affluent regions, perpetuating the belief that the West is more sexually progressive and liberal than other cultures. This book challenges this belief by exploring diverse cultures and perspectives from the majority world, which are often overlooked. It highlights the importance of learning from cultures in the global South and East, dismantling stereotypes that frame them as sexually conservative or inferior. Variously drawing on structuralist, postcolonial and decolonial theory as well as social anthropology, the book critically examines binaries related to culture, age, sex and intimacy, highlighting the need to decentre Western perspectives as the benchmark while other cultures and practices are misunderstood.

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Author:   Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan (Silver Lining Foundation in Trinidad and Tobago) ,  Debra A. Harley (University of Kentucky) ,  Shanon Shah (King's College London) ,  Paul Simpson (University of Manchester)
Publisher:   Bristol University Press
Imprint:   Policy Press
ISBN:  

9781447368410

ISBN 10:   144736841
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   01 August 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction - Krystal Ghisyawan, Debra Harley, Shanon Shan, Paul Simpson Part 1: In/visibility 1. Under the Orhni: Near-invisibility of the Indo-Trinidadian Queer Community - Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan & Marcus Kissoon 2. Older Menopausal Tunisian Women - Shereen El Feki & Selma Hajri 3. Older Hong Kongese Gay/Bisexual Men - Barry Man Wai Lee & Travis Kong, Associate 4. Sex and Older Gay Men in Urban Nigeria? - Edwin Okolo and Imo Emah 5. Elderly Kinnar, Ageism and Sexuality During the Covid-19 Outbreak: An Advocacy Perspective - Anushkaa Arora Part 2: Pleasure, Erotica and Fantasy 6. Native American Indigenous Erotica Through Poetry and Stories About Later Life Ussing a Queer Decolonial Lens - Madeline Burns 7. Sexual Fantasies of Older People in an ‘Indigenous’ Mexican Community - Cuauhtémoc Sanchez-Vega 8. Sexual Pleasure in Later Life in Islamic Sex Manuals - Shanon Shah Part 3: Intergenerationality and Queering Age 9. Sex, Intimacy & Older Indian Women’s Stories Told Intergenerationally - Sally Anne Param 10. They Call Her Second-hand’: Sex, Intimacy and the Definition of ‘Spinsterhood’ in a Nigerian Christian Context - George Amako 11. Communal Women’s Massages and Intergenerational Conversations about Sex and Intimacy in Borneo - Damina Khaira 12. ‘My Body, the Vessel’: Desexualisation in Later Life as Consequence of the Early Life Course Sexualities of Older South Asian Migrant Women in the UK - Nafhesa Ali 13. Generational Change vis-a-vis Queer Life in Trinidad - Keith McNeal Concluding Reflections on Later Life Sex and Intimacy in the Majority World - Krystal Ghisyawan, Debra Harley, Shanon Shan, Paul Simpson

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Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan is Director of Research at the Silver Lining Foundation in Trinidad and Tobago. Debra A. Harley is Provost Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Early Childhood, Special Education and Counsellor Education at the University of Kentucky. Shanon Shah is Researcher at the Information Network Focus on Religious Movements (Inform), based at King's College London, and Tutor in Islam at the University of London's Divinity programme. Paul Simpson is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester.

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