Sarah Milton is Senior Research Fellow in the Sociology of Health and Illness at King's College London.
'This sensational book analyses gendered ageing and embodiment through older women’s engagement with Salsa dancing. Milton skilfully interweaves generation, memory and new forms of intimacy in reframing normative ageing. This salsa ethnography reveals a world of safe sensuality through which older women navigate new intimacies through touch, flirting and friendship, alongside contempt often visited to ageing sexuality. A must-read, this book disrupts normative ideas of ageing and sexuality.' Sweta Rajan-Rankin, Reader, University of Kent 'Like all the best ethnographies, Sarah Milton’s beautifully written study combines a careful and detailed analysis with a compelling narrative. Attentive to the complexities of class, race, age and gender and their interactions, Milton provides her readers with a nuanced account of the lives of a group of women in middle age negotiating their social and intimate lives and reflecting on the conditions under which they make these negotiations.' Steph Lawler, Reader Emerita, University of York -- .