Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Thanks and acknowledgements v
3. Contents vii
4. Notes on editors and contributors ix
5. Series editors’ introduction xv
6. Foreword xxv
7. Introduction to the volume: themes, issues and chapter synopses 1
8. In/visibility and ambivalence
9. Under the orhni: intimacy and near-invisibility among older Indo-Trinidadian queer menKrystal Nandini Ghisyawan and Marcus Kissoon 21
10. Older kinnars, ageism and sexuality during the COVID-19 pandemic 38
11. Doing complex intimacy in the later life of Chinese gay men in Hong Kong 54
12. Women questioning age/ing intergenerationally and intragenerationally
13. Deep within the eye of the beheld: exploring hidden accounts of intimacy in the lives of older Indian women in urban Malaysia 75
14. From age of despair to window of opportunity? Reframing women’s sexuality in later life in the Middle East and North Africa 93
15. Lost voices of Partition: carrying gender, nation and femininity across the life course 115
16. Agency through fantasy, erotic tales and pleasure
17. Sexual fantasies and older, Indigenous Purépecha women: sociocultural constraints and possibilities 139
18. Indigenous elders as sexual agents through storytelling as a queer and decolonial practice in ‘Canada’ 157
19. Sex, intimacy and older life in Muslim contexts 174
20. Reflections: themes and issues emerging from the volume 192
21. Index 209