Author : M. Shildrick
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 42,92 MB
Release : 2009-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230244645
This innovative and adventurous work, now in paperback, uses broadly feminist and postmodernist modes of analysis to explore what motivates damaging attitudes and practices towards disability. The book argues for the significance of the psycho-social imaginary and suggests a way forward in disability's queering of normative paradigms.
Author : Frida Beckman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 28,60 MB
Release : 2011-07-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0748688994
This collection of essays offers a fresh and new philosophical approach to the study of sex and sexuality as practicein the philosophy of Deleuze.
Author : Rachel Adams
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,74 MB
Release : 2015-08-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 1479845639
Introduces key terms, concepts, debates, and histories for Disability Studies Keywords for Disability Studies aims to broaden and define the conceptual framework of disability studies for readers and practitioners in the field and beyond. The volume engages some of the most pressing debates of our time, such as prenatal testing, euthanasia, accessibility in public transportation and the workplace, post-traumatic stress, and questions about the beginning and end of life. Each of the 60 essays in Keywords for Disability Studies focuses on a distinct critical concept, including “ethics,” “medicalization,” “performance,” “reproduction,” “identity,” and “stigma,” among others. Although the essays recognize that “disability” is often used as an umbrella term, the contributors to the volume avoid treating individual disabilities as keywords, and instead interrogate concepts that encompass different components of the social and bodily experience of disability. The essays approach disability as an embodied condition, a mutable historical phenomenon, and a social, political, and cultural identity. An invaluable resource for students and scholars alike, Keywords for Disability Studies brings the debates that have often remained internal to disability studies into a wider field of critical discourse, providing opportunities for fresh theoretical considerations of the field’s core presuppositions through a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Visit keywords.nyupress.org for online essays, teaching resources, and more.
Author : Robert McRuer
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 35,54 MB
Release : 2012-01-04
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0822351544
This collection brings together scholars and artists in disability studies, sexuality, queer theory, and feminism, to show how much sexuality studies and disability studies have to learn from each other.
Author : Firdaus Kanga
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,87 MB
Release : 2008
Category :
ISBN : 9780143100782
Brit Kotwal Breaks His Legs Eleven Times Before He Is Five Years Old. His Teeth Crumble And Chip If He Tries To Bite Into Anything. It Was His Sister Dolly S Idea To Call Him Brit, Short For Brittle, Because Of His Bones. Besides, Parsees Don T Really Like Long First-Names, And It Pleased His Mother Sera Because It Sounded So English. It Was Fun Sometimes, Being Different. None Of The Other Children Drank Powdered Pearls In Their Milk, Or Had Almond Oil Rubbed Into Their Legs Until It Gleamed Like Bangalore Silk. And Brit Knew He Could Always Get His Own Way With Dolly Even If It Took A Little Blackmail. But When You Reach Eighteen And Are Still The Size Of An Eight Year Old, It Is Not Much Fun, And Brit Has To Begin To Try And Grow In His Own Way& Trying To Grow Is A Many-Splendoured Work Built Around The Experiences Of A Physically Handicapped Boy Turning Into Manhood, A Deeply Moving Story Told With A Remarkable Blend Of Directness, Humour And Irreverence.
Author : Michael Gill
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 34,39 MB
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1452942145
Why is the sexuality of people with intellectual disabilities often deemed “risky” or “inappropriate” by teachers, parents, support staff, medical professionals, judges, and the media? Should sexual citizenship depend on IQ? Confronting such questions head-on, Already Doing It exposes the “sexual ableism” that denies the reality of individuals who, despite the restrictions they face, actively make decisions about their sexual lives. Tracing the history of efforts in the United States to limit the sexual freedoms of such persons⎯using methods such as forced sterilization, invasive birth control, and gender-segregated living arrangements—Michael Gill demonstrates that these widespread practices stemmed from dominant views of disabled sexuality, not least the notion that intellectually disabled women are excessively sexual and fertile while their male counterparts are sexually predatory. Analyzing legal discourses, sex education materials, and news stories going back to the 1970s, he shows, for example, that the intense focus on “stranger danger” in sex education for intellectually disabled individuals disregards their ability to independently choose activities and sexual partners—including nonheterosexual ones, who are frequently treated with heightened suspicion. He also examines ethical issues surrounding masturbation training that aims to regulate individuals’ sexual lives, challenges the perception that those whose sexuality is controlled (or rejected) should not reproduce, and proposes recognition of the right to become parents for adults with intellectual disabilities. A powerfully argued call for sexual and reproductive justice for people with intellectual disabilities, Already Doing It urges a shift away from the compulsion to manage “deviance” (better known today as harm reduction) because the right to pleasure and intellectual disability are not mutually exclusive. In so doing, it represents a vital new contribution to the ongoing debate over who, in the United States, should be allowed to have sex, reproduce, marry, and raise children.
Author : Kirsty Liddiard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 13,80 MB
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317027094
Disabled people are routinely assumed to lack the capabilities and capacities to embody and experience sexuality and desire, as well as the agency to love and be loved by others, and build their own families, if they so choose. Centring on the sexual, intimate and erotic lives of disabled people, this book presents a rare opportunity to understand and ask critical questions about such widely held assumptions. In essence, this book is a collection of sexual stories, told by disabled people on their own terms and in their own ways. Stories that shed light on areas of disability, love and life that are typically overlooked and ignored. A sociological analysis of these stories reveals the creative ways in which disabled people manage and negotiate their sexual and intimate lives in contexts where these are habitually denied. In its calls for disabled people’s sexual and intimate citizenship, stories are drawn upon as the means to create social change and build more radically inclusive sexual cultures. In this ground breaking feminist critical disability studies text, The Intimate Lives of Disabled People introduces and contributes to contemporary debates around disability, sexuality and intimacy in the 21st century. Its arguments are relevant and accessible to researchers, academics, and students across a wide range of disciplines – such as sociology, gender studies, psychology, social work, and philosophy – as well as disabled people, their families and allies, and the professionals who work with and for them.
Author : Margrit Shildrick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,1 MB
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1136184627
Drawing on postmodernist analyses, Leaky Bodies and Boundaries presents a feminist investigation into the marginalization of women within western discourse that denies female moral agency and embodiment. With reference to contemporary and historical issues in biomedicine, the book argues that the boundaries of both the subject and the body are no longer secure. The aim is both to valorise women and to suggest that 'leakiness' may be the very ground for a postmodern feminist ethic. The contribution made by Leaky Bodies and Boundaries is to go beyond modernist feminisms to radically displace the mechanisms by which women are devalued. The anxiety that postmodernism cannot yield an ethics, nor advance feminist concerns is addressed. This book will provide invaluable reading for those studying feminist philosophy, cultural studies and sociology.
Author : Lynne Huffer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,68 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231149190
Contemporary critiques of sexuality have their origins in the work of Michel Foucault. While Foucault's seminal arguments helped to establish the foundations of queer theory and greatly advance feminist critique, Lynne Huffer argues that our interpretation of the theorist's powerful ideas remains flawed.
Author : Allison Leadley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,10 MB
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1848884826
Working form an interdisciplinary approach, this eBook seeks to dismantle the prevailing negative narratives and assumptions around disability and sex to reveal the disabled subject as a figure that is at once, both capable of being desired and desiring.
