The title of this collection of essays, Sex and Disability, unites
two terms that the popular imagination often regards as
incongruous. The major texts in sexuality studies, including queer
theory, rarely mention disability, and foundational texts in
disability studies do not discuss sex in much detail. What if "sex"
and "disability" were understood as intimately related concepts?
And what if disabled people were seen as both subjects and objects
of a range of erotic desires and practices? These are among the
questions that this collection's contributors engage. From multiple
perspectives-including literary analysis, ethnography, and
autobiography-they consider how sex and disability come together
and how disabled people negotiate sex and sexual identities in
ableist and heteronormative culture. Queering disability studies,
while also expanding the purview of queer and sexuality studies,
these essays shake up notions about who and what is sexy and
sexualizable, what counts as sex, and what desire is. At the same
time, they challenge conceptions of disability in the dominant
culture, queer studies, and disability studies. Contributors. Chris
Bell, Michael Davidson, Lennard J. Davis, Michel Desjardins, Lezlie
Frye, Rachael Groner, Kristen Harmon, Michelle Jarman, Alison
Kafer, Riva Lehrer, Nicole Markotic, Robert McRuer, Anna Mollow,
Rachel O'Connell, Russell Shuttleworth, David Serlin, Tobin
Siebers, Abby L. Wilkerson
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