Addressing the Sexual Rights of Older People - Theory, Policy and Practice

Informationen zum Autor 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Barrett, Catherine Hinchliff Barrett
• Assisted by: Catherine Barrett (Editor), Barrett Catherine (Editor), Sharron Hinchliff (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.10.2017
• EAN: 9781138189171
• ISBN: 978-1-138-18917-1
• No. of pages: 172
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Nursing; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; Human Rights, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, Personal & public health, Age groups: the elderly, Sociology: sexual relations, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Human rights, civil rights, Personal and public health / health education