The Intimate Lives of Disabled People

ISBN-13: 9780367265373 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 222 str.

Kirsty Liddiard

Opis

Foregrounding disabled people’s own sexual stories collected through a participatory and multi-method empirical study, this book provides a richly detailed account of the complex and variegated relationships between sexuality, disability, gender and impairment

Spis treści

Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Exploring Disability and Sexuality; Chapter 2. Theorising Disabled Sexualities: Constraints and Possibilities ; Chapter 3. Reflections on the Process of Researching Disabled People’s Sexual Lives; Chapter 4. "Can you have sex?" Intimate Citizens and Intimate Selves; Chapter 5. "I need to stick with this because I might not find anybody else": The Labour of Love; Chapter 6. "If I ever wanted an affair I’d have to send my lover to lifting and handling classes first!" Sexual Normativity and Othered Bodies; Chapter 7. "…They finish off with a blow job": Politics, Power and the Precarity of Pleasure; Chapter 8. Drawing Some Conclusions; Index

O autorze

Kirsty Liddiard is a Research Fellow in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield, where she also co-leads the Institute for the Study of the Human (iHuman).