Ageing and New Intimacies: Gender, Sexuality and Time in an English Salsa Scene

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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 of men and women in Britain now entering mid and later life, 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 ethnographic fieldwork in salsa classes and life history interviews, this book documents the meanings of desire and romance, and new intimacies, among women in mid and later life. Challenging notions of the revolutionary 'baby boomers', it details how these practices, experiences and identities are intersected and informed by age, class, whiteness, and a pervasive concern to remain respectable.

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Sarah Milton is Senior Research Fellow in the Sociology of Health and Illness at Kings College London.