Foreword

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of figures and tables ix
4. Notes on editors and contributors x
5. Series editors’ introduction xiv
6. Foreword xxv
7. Sex and intimacy in later life: a survey of the terrain 1
8. Sexual expression and pleasure among black minority ethnic older women 15
9. Sexual desires and intimacy needs in older persons and towards the end of life 39
10. Heterosexual sex, love and intimacy in later life: what have older women got to say? 57
11. Sex and ageing in older heterosexual men 79
12. Sex and older gay men 103
13. Thinking the unthinkable: older lesbians, sex and violence 121
14. Splitting hairs: Michel Foucault’s ‘heterotopia’ and bisexuality in later life 139
15. The age of rediscovery: what is it like to gender transition when you are 50 plus? 163
16. Ageing asexually: exploring desexualisation and ageing intimacies 181
17. Older people, sex and social class: unusual bedfellows? 199
18. Final reflections: themes on sex and intimacy in later life 217
19. Index 231