Addressing the Sexual Rights of Older People (eBook, PDF)

Theory, Policy and Practice
Redaktion: Barrett, Catherine; Hinchliff, Sharron

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

There is growing evidence that the sexual rights of older people are not being met. One reason connects with the way that older people are viewed. In many cultures, older age is associated with decline, frailty, and disease and this construction of the older person positions them as dependent, powerless, and vulnerable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317280965
• Artikelnr.: 50000181

Autorenporträt

Catherine Barrett is Director of Celebrate Ageing and the OPAL Institute, a national program promoting the sexual rights of older Australians. Sharron Hinchliff is Senior Lecturer at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Sheffield, where she leads the ageing, gender, and sexual health and wellbeing programme of research.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction to the sexual rights of older people. 2. Bundles of
potential: The sexual rights of older people. = 3. Framing the sexual
rights of older heterosexual women: Acknowledging diversity and change. 4.
Older men's experiences of sexuality and their relevance for sexual rights.
5. The hidden sexualities of older lesbians and bisexual women. 6.
Transgender older people: At Sea. far from the sexual rights shore. 7.
Intersex ageing and (sexual) rights. 8. Sexual assault of older women:
Breaking the silence. Bianca Fileborn. 9. The challenges in reducing STIs
while fulfilling and enhancing the sexual rights of older people. 10.
Challenging the 'viagratization' of heterosexuality and ageing. 11. Older
people as cyber-sexual beings: Online and internet dating. 12. Conclusion:
Moving forward. implementing change.