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This handbook provides a much-needed holistic overview of
disability and sexuality research and scholarship. With authors
from a wide range of disciplines and representing a diversity of
nationalities, it provides a multi-perspectival view that fully
captures the diversity of issues and outlooks. Organised into six
parts, the contributors explore long-standing issues such as the
psychological, interpersonal, social, political and cultural
barriers to sexual access that disabled people face and their
struggle for sexual rights and participation. The volume also
engages issues that have been on the periphery of the discourse,
such as sexual accommodations and support aimed at facilitating
disabled people's sexual well-being; the socio-sexual tensions
confronting disabled people with intersecting stigmatised
identities such as LGBTBI or asexual; and the sexual concerns of
disabled people in the Global South. It interrogates disability and
sexuality from diverse perspectives, from more traditional
psychological and sociological models, to various subversive and
post-theoretical perspectives and queer theory. This handbook
examines the cutting-edge, and sometimes ethically contentious,
concerns that have been repressed in the field. With current,
international and comprehensive content, this book is essential
reading for students, academics and researchers in the areas of
disability, gender and sexuality, as well as applied disciplines
such as healthcare practitioners, counsellors, psychology trainees
and social workers.
This handbook provides a much-needed holistic overview of
disability and sexuality research and scholarship. With authors
from a wide range of disciplines and representing a diversity of
nationalities, it provides a multi-perspectival view that fully
captures the diversity of issues and outlooks. Organised into six
parts, the contributors explore long-standing issues such as the
psychological, interpersonal, social, political and cultural
barriers to sexual access that disabled people face and their
struggle for sexual rights and participation. The volume also
engages issues that have been on the periphery of the discourse,
such as sexual accommodations and support aimed at facilitating
disabled people's sexual well-being; the socio-sexual tensions
confronting disabled people with intersecting stigmatised
identities such as LGBTBI or asexual; and the sexual concerns of
disabled people in the Global South. It interrogates disability and
sexuality from diverse perspectives, from more traditional
psychological and sociological models, to various subversive and
post-theoretical perspectives and queer theory. This handbook
examines the cutting-edge, and sometimes ethically contentious,
concerns that have been repressed in the field. With current,
international and comprehensive content, this book is essential
reading for students, academics and researchers in the areas of
disability, gender and sexuality, as well as applied disciplines
such as healthcare practitioners, counsellors, psychology trainees
and social workers.
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Gendering Disability (Paperback, New)
Bonnie G Smith, Beth Hutchison; Contributions by Catherine Kudlick, Lisa Schur, Melissa McNeil, …
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R1,061
Discovery Miles 10 610
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Disability and gender, terms that have previously seemed so
clear-cut, are becoming increasingly complex in light of new
politics and scholarship. These words now suggest complicated sets
of practices and ways of being. Contributors to this innovative
collection explore the intersection of gender and disability in the
arts, consumer culture, healing, the personal and private realms,
and the appearance of disability in the public sphere-both in
public fantasies and in public activism. Beginning as separate
enterprises that followed activist and scholarly paths, gender and
disability studies have reached a point where they can move beyond
their boundaries for a common landscape to inspire new areas of
inquiry. Whether from a perspective in the humanities, social
sciences, sciences, or arts, the shared subject matter of gender
and disability studies-the body, social and cultural hierarchy,
identity, discrimination and inequality, representation, and
political activism-insistently calls for deeper conversation. This
volume provides fresh findings not only about the discrimination
practiced against women and people with disabilities, but also
about the productive parallelism between these two categories.
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