Later Life Intimacy: Women’s Unruly Practices, Spaces and Representations

Project Information

LiLI

Grant agreement ID: 851666

DOI

10.3030/851666

Project closed

EC signature date 16 January 2020

Start date 1 May 2020

End date 30 April 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 486 000,00

EU contribution

€ 1 486 000,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT GENT
Belgium

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Publications

Monographic books (1)

Women's Ageing and Sexuality. Unruly Aesthetics

Author(s): Katrien De Graeve, Giulia Nazzaro
Published in: 2026
Publisher: Policy Press, Bristol University Press

Peer reviewed articles (9)

Menopausal rage, erotic power and gaga feminist possibilities

Author(s): Katrien De Graeve, Sara De Vuyst
Published in: European Journal of Women’s Studies, Issue 13505068, 2022, Page(s) 438-453, ISSN 1350-5068
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/13505068221094222

Redrawing women’s later-in-life desires: Representations of ageing femininities, intimacies and the promise of happiness in graphic novels

Author(s): Sara De Vuyst
Published in: European Journal of Cultural Studies, Issue 26(2)189-211, 2022, ISSN 1367-5494
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/13675494221102517

Ageivism Roundtable

Author(s): Katrien De Graeve (ed.) Katrien De Graeve, Anja Meulenbelt, Ryan Backer, Sara De Vuyst, Katrien Jacobs, Aagje Swinnen
Published in: DiGeSt,Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies, Issue 25930281, 2022, ISSN 2593-0281
Publisher: Ghent University
DOI: 10.21825/digest.84823

Ageing and unruliness: Articulations of gaga feminism in representations of ageing, gender and sexuality

Author(s): Sara De Vuyst, Katrien De Graeve
Published in: European Journal of Cultural Studies, Issue Volume 27, Issue 4, 2024, Page(s) 720-735, ISSN 1367-5494
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/gctdr

From allochronism to generationality: Ageism in queer communities in Belgium

Author(s): Katrien De Graeve, Ladan Rahbari, Nika Looman
Published in: Sexualities, 2024, ISSN 1363-4607
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/13634607231193312

Creating a patchwork of unruliness: The grumpy old woman as affect alien

Author(s): Sara De Vuyst
Published in: International Journal of Cultural Studies, Issue 13678779, 2021, Page(s) 102-118, ISSN 1367-8779
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/13678779211041378

Gender, Sexuality, and Embodiment in Digital Spheres: Connecting Intersectionality and Digitality

Author(s): Sara De Vuyst, Evelien Geerts, Ladan Rahbari
Published in: Journal of Digital Social Research, Issue 4(3)1-9, 2022, ISSN 2003-1998
Publisher: DIGSUM Digital Social Research Umeå University
DOI: 10.33621/jdsr.v4i3.150

Pushing Intersectionality, Hybridity, and (Inter)Disciplinary Research on Digitality to Its Limits: A Conversation Among Scholars of Gender, Sexuality, and Embodiment

Author(s): Evelien Geerts, Ladan Rahbari, Giulia Evolvi, Shiva Zarabadi, Sara De Vuyst
Published in: Journal of Digital Social Research, Issue 4(3)81-106, 2022, ISSN 2003-1998
Publisher: DIGSUM Digital Social Research Umeå University
DOI: 10.33621/jdsr.v4i3.140

Seksuele diversiteit en genderdiversiteit op latere leeftijd : uitdagingen voor LGBTI+ ouderen

Author(s): Nika Looman, Maggy Doumen
Published in: Senior. Tijdschrift voor Kwaliteitsvolle Ouderenzorg, Issue 6(4), 2025, Page(s) 13-19, ISSN 2684-480X
Publisher: Gompel&Svacina

Non-peer reviewed articles (6)

De toekomst van relaties en hoe die politiek

Author(s): Katrien De Graeve
Published in: Tijdschrift voor Seksuologie, Issue 01675915, 2022, Page(s) 47-50, ISSN 0167-5915
Publisher: Stichting Tijdschrift voor Seksuologie

De gaga-esthetiek van het mislukken. Over oudere vrouwen, geluk en seksualiteit

Author(s): Katrien De Graeve, Sara De Vuyst
Published in: Rekto:Verso, Issue 99:16-19, 2023, ISSN 1780-5244
Publisher: rektoverso vzw

Unruly temporalities: Older queer women and non-binary people narrating later-life sexuality

Author(s): Nika Looman, Ladan Rahbari, Katrien De Graeve
Published in: Journal of Women & Aging, Issue 37, 2025, Page(s) 87-99, ISSN 0895-2841
Publisher: Haworth Press Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/08952841.2024.2428891

Segal, L. (2014). Out of time: The pleasures and perils of ageing. London: Verso Books. Review by Carla Besora Barti

Author(s): Carla Besora Barti
Published in: DiGeSt - Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies, Issue 11, 2024, ISSN 2593-0273
Publisher: Ghent University
DOI: 10.21825/digest.90465

Sensing, drawing and making sense. Enlivening ethnographic fieldnotes.

Author(s): Carla Besora Barti
Published in: Lova Journal of Feminist Anthropology and Gender Studies, Issue 44, 2024, Page(s) 15-34, ISSN 1388-4840
Publisher: Lovanetwork
DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/5e3jc

Recht op (vreugdevolle) seks? Naar een feministische politiek van seksueel verlangen

Author(s): Katrien De Graeve
Published in: Karakter. Tijdschrift van Wetenschap, Issue 82:6-8, 2023, Page(s) 3, ISSN 1370-656X
Publisher: Academische stichting

Book chapters (3)

Editors' Introduction: Gender and Sexuality in the European Media: Exploring Different Contexts Through Conceptualisations of Age

Author(s): Sara De Vuyst, Cosimo Marco Scarcelli, Despina Chronaki, Sergio Villanueva Baselga
Published in: Routledge, 2021, Page(s) 1-8
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9780367808792-101

'Not that kind of old person' : trans women and non-binary individuals' later-in-life beauty practices on digital dating platforms

Author(s): Nika Looman, Ladan Rahbari, Katrien De Graeve
Published in: The life of beauty : location, experience, methodology, 2025
Publisher: Seismo

From new possibilities to late-onset affordances: reflections on lesbian experiences of ageing, disability and (non-)sex

Author(s): Giulia Nazzaro, Nika Looman, Katrien De Graeve
Published in: Ageing, Sex and Disability. New Aesthetics and Critical Perspectives, 2026
Publisher: Bristol University Press Policy

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Queer late/r life sex : women and non-binary people's unruly stories

Author(s): Nika Looman
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Ghent University Press