Later Life, Sex and Intimacy in the Majority World

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Later Life, Sex and Intimacy in the Majority World

Edited by: Debra A. Harley , Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan , Shanon Shah and Paul Simpson

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2024

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Sex and Intimacy in Later Life

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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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Social Sciences Sociology Sociology of Family, Youth, and Aging

Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Thanks and acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Notes on editors and contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Series editors’ introduction Paul Reynolds, Paul Simpson and Trish Hafford-Letchfield Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Foreword Gayatri Reddy Publicly Available Download PDF	xxv
Introduction to the volume: themes, issues and chapter synopses Paul Simpson, Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan, Debra A. Harley and Shanon Shah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
In/visibility and ambivalence
Under the orhni: intimacy and near-invisibility among older Indo-Trinidadian queer menKrystal Nandini Ghisyawan and Marcus Kissoon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
Older kinnars, ageism and sexuality during the COVID-19 pandemic Anushkaa Arora Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	38
Doing complex intimacy in the later life of Chinese gay men in Hong Kong Barry Lee 李文偉 and Travis S.K. Kong 江紹祺 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	54
Women questioning age/ing intergenerationally and intragenerationally
Deep within the eye of the beheld: exploring hidden accounts of intimacy in the lives of older Indian women in urban Malaysia Sally Anne Param Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	75
From age of despair to window of opportunity? Reframing women’s sexuality in later life in the Middle East and North Africa Shereen El Feki and Selma Hajri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	93
Lost voices of Partition: carrying gender, nation and femininity across the life course Nafhesa Ali Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	115
Agency through fantasy, erotic tales and pleasure
Sexual fantasies and older, Indigenous Purépecha women: sociocultural constraints and possibilities Cuauhtémoc Sanchez Vega Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	139
Indigenous elders as sexual agents through storytelling as a queer and decolonial practice in ‘Canada’ Madeline Burns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	157
Sex, intimacy and older life in Muslim contexts Shanon Shah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	174
Reflections: themes and issues emerging from the volume Debra A. Harley, Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan, Shanon Shah and Paul Simpson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	192
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	209

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July 22, 2024

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9781447368441

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244

https://doi.org/10.56687/9781447368441

eBook ISBN: 9781447368441

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