The Intimate Lives of Disabled People

ISBN-13: 9781409460909 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 222 str.

Kirsty Liddiard

Opis

Despite over thirty years of disability activism and scholarship, disabled people's sexual identities remain the sum of the paradoxical social categories of 'asexual innocents', or 'perverts'. This timely book explores their experiences of sexual and intimate life within the context of both these constructed sexualities and the wider contemporary ableist cultures which both produce and promulgate them. 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. The ground-breaking findings to emerge from this study, which take centre stage in this book, not only shine a light on the oppressive darkness in which contemporary disabled sexualities are plunged, but equally both trouble and challenge our current understanding of sexual life as we know it.

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).