Later Life, Sex and Intimacy in the Majority World

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 Purepecha Women: Socio-Cultural Constraints and Possibilities - Cuauhtemoc 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