Ageing and new intimacies
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Ageing and new intimacies

Gender, sexuality and temporality in an English salsa scene

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Ageing and new intimacies

Gender, sexuality and temporality in an English salsa scene

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About This Book

The 'baby boom' generation, born between the 1940s and the 1960s, is often credited with pioneering new and creative ways of relating, doing intimacy and making families. With this cohort now entering mid and later life in Britain, they are also said to be revolutionising the experience of ageing. Are the romantic practices of this 'revolutionary cohort' breaking with tradition and allowing new ways of understanding and doing ageing and relating to emerge? Based on an innovative combination of sensory ethnography in salsa classes and life history interviews, this book documents the meanings of desire and romance, and 'new' – or renewed - intimacies, among women in mid and later life.Beginning with women at a transition point, when newly single or newly dating in midlife, the chapters look back over life histories to examine prior relationship experiences at different life stages, and look forward to hopes for future intimacies. In the navigation of romance and new relationships we see the sensory, sensual and affective nature of heteronormativity, and gendered practices that are informed by memories of the past, the imagination of previous generations and class-based desires. Challenging conventional notions of the baby boomers, this book illuminates the intersections of age, class, and white normativity, making important contributions to our understanding of ageing and generation, intimacy and gender.

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Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
2024
ISBN
9781526168054
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Preface
  9. Introduction: revolutionary intimacies?
  10. 1 Salsa and safe sensuality
  11. 2 Memories, generations and multiple femininities
  12. 3 Compatibility and contempt
  13. 4 Glamour, hierarchical femininities and friendship
  14. Conclusion: (re)negotiating ageing, gender and sexuality
  15. Epilogue: updating dancing and dating
  16. References
  17. Index