Thanks and acknowledgements

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

Notes on editors and contributors

pp ix-xiv

Series editors’ introduction

pp xv-xxiv

Foreword

pp xxv-xxviii

1 - Introduction to the volume: themes, issues and chapter synopses

pp 1-18

Part I - In/visibility and ambivalence

pp 19-20

2 - Under the orhni: intimacy and near-invisibility among older Indo-Trinidadian queer men

pp 21-37

3 - Older kinnars, ageism and sexuality during the COVID-19 pandemic

pp 38-53

4 - Doing complex intimacy in the later life of Chinese gay men in Hong Kong

pp 54-72

Part II - Women questioning age/ing intergenerationally and intragenerationally

pp 73-74

5 - Deep within the eye of the beheld: exploring hidden accounts of intimacy in the lives of older Indian women in urban Malaysia

pp 75-92

6 - From age of despair to window of opportunity? Reframing women’s sexuality in later life in the Middle East and North Africa

pp 93-114

7 - Lost voices of Partition: carrying gender, nation and femininity across the life course

pp 115-136

Part III - Agency through fantasy, erotic tales and pleasure

pp 137-138

8 - Sexual fantasies and older, Indigenous Purépecha women: sociocultural constraints and possibilities

pp 139-156

9 - Indigenous elders as sexual agents through storytelling as a queer and decolonial practice in ‘Canada’

pp 157-173

10 - Sex, intimacy and older life in Muslim contexts

pp 174-191

11 - Reflections: themes and issues emerging from the volume

pp 192-208

Index

pp 209-216