Sex and intimacy in later life : a survey of the terrain
Reynolds, Paul and Simpson, Paul and Hafford-Letchfield, Trish; Hafford-Letchfield, Trish and Simpson, Paul and Reynolds, Paul, eds. (2021) Sex and intimacy in later life : a survey of the terrain. In: Sex and Diversity in Later Life. Policy Press, Bristol, pp. 1-13. ISBN 9781447355427
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Abstract
Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 suggests a recognition of finality, mortality and the changes that ageing brings, with a plea for love (and respect?) from those who are younger, through the certain knowledge that they will miss those who are ageing when they pass, and will experience ageing and its vicissitudes themselves. This is ageing as natural cycle and self-aware progression through the life course. It appeals to naturalized and normalized contours of the process of ageing, which are 'coloured in' by cultural representations of how we are seen to age. Older people should 'grow old gracefully', both experience and express that 'slow journey into the twilight of their lives'.
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Reynolds, Paul, Simpson, Paul and Hafford-Letchfield, Trish ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0105-0678; Hafford-Letchfield, Trish, Simpson, Paul and Reynolds, Paul-
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Item type: Book Section ID code: 77503 Dates: DateEvent27 May 2021PublishedSubjects: Social Sciences Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Social Work and Social Policy > Social Work and Social Policy Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 20 Aug 2021 10:07 Last modified: 06 Sep 2024 00:31 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/77503