Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20695
Title: Review of 'Sexuality & Ageing', edited by Walter Pierre Bouman and Peggy J. Kleinplatz. New York, Routledge, 2016, xii C 186 pp., UK£95.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-138-93263-0
Contributor(s): Rahn, Alison  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2016
DOI: 10.1080/14681994.2015.1126670
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20695
Abstract: 'Sexuality & Ageing' offers a refreshing alternative to the deterministic perspective of ageing as an inevitable journey of sexual dysfunction and increasing decrepitude. This book presents interdisciplinary research from a variety of authors who challenge this view. Sexuality across the life course is represented as a series of choices often within one's control. Distinctions are made between sexual changes due to illness and medications, as opposed to ageing per se. Sociocultural and psychosocial factors are explored, including the attitudes of health professionals, aged care providers and older people themselves. Most importantly, rather than presenting older people as a homogenous group, a rich diversity of experiences is presented beyond heteronormative stereotypes.
Publication Type: Review
Source of Publication: Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 31(2), p. 248-249
Publisher: Routledge
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
ISSN: 1468-1749
1468-1994
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 169999 Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified
170102 Developmental Psychology and Ageing
160899 Sociology not elsewhere classified
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 449999 Other human society not elsewhere classified
520101 Child and adolescent development
441099 Sociology not elsewhere classified
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 920502 Health Related to Ageing
920504 Men's Health
920507 Women's Health
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 200502 Health related to ageing
200504 Men's health
200509 Women's and maternal health
HERDC Category Description: D3 Review of Single Work
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