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.

Foreword - Gayatri Reddy


1.Introduction to the Volume: Themes, Issues and Chapter Synopses - Paul Simpson, Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan, Debra A. Harley, Shanon Shah


Part 1: In/visibility and Ambivalence


2.Under the Orhni: Intimacy and Near-Invisibility among Older Indo-Trinidadian Queer Men - Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan and Marcus Kissoon


3.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 Kong


Part 2: Women Questioning Age/ing Intergenerationally and Intragenerationally


5.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


6.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 Hajri


7.Lost Voices of Partition: Carrying Gender, Nation and Femininity across the Life Course - Nafhesa Ali


Part 3: Agency through Fantasy, Erotic Tales and Pleasure


8.Sexual Fantasies and Older, Indigenous Purépecha Women: Socio-Cultural Constraints and Possibilities - Cuauhtémoc Sanchez Vega


9.Indigenous Elders as Sexual Agents Through Storytelling as a Queer and Decolonial Practice in ‘Canada’ - Madeline Burns


10.Sex, Intimacy and Older Life in Muslim Contexts - Shanon Shah


11.Reflections: Themes and Issues Emerging from the Volume - Debra A. Harley, Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan, Shanon Shah, Paul Simpson