Later Life, Sex and Intimacy in the Majority World

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.

“Sex and intimacy is not simply for the young! This volume gives a much-needed impetus to understanding the continuing centrality of such questions in later life. It takes an extraordinarily expansive view, traversing fields of inquiry and geographic locations. A very welcome addition to both sexuality and ageing studies.” Arlene Stein, Rutgers University

• Foreword - Gayatri Reddy1.Introduction to the Volume: Themes, Issues and Chapter Synopses - Paul Simpson, Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan, Debra A. Harley, Shanon ShahPart 1: In/visibility and Ambivalence2.Under the Orhni: Intimacy and Near-Invisibility among Older Indo-Trinidadian Queer Men - Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan and Marcus Kissoon3.Older kinnars, ageism and Sexuality during the Covid-19 Outbreak - Anushkaa Arora 4.Doing Complex Intimacy in the Later Life of Chinese Gay Men in Hong Kong - Barry Lee and Travis KongPart 2: Women Questioning Age/ing Intergenerationally and Intragenerationally5.Deep within the Eye of the Beheld: Exploring Hidden Accounts of Intimacy in the Lives of Older Indian Women in Urban Malaysia - Sally Anne Param6.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 Dr Selma Hajri7.Lost Voices of Partition: Carrying Gender, Nation and Femininity across the Life Course - Nafhesa AliPart 3: Agency through Fantasy, Erotic Tales and Pleasure8.Sexual Fantasies and Older, Indigenous Purépecha Women: Socio-Cultural Constraints and Possibilities - Cuauhtémoc Sanchez Vega9.Indigenous Elders as Sexual Agents Through Storytelling as a Queer and Decolonial Practice in ‘Canada’ - Madeline Burns10.Sex, Intimacy and Older Life in Muslim Contexts - Shanon Shah11.Reflections: Themes and Issues Emerging from the Volume - Debra A. Harley, Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan, Shanon Shah, Paul Simpson