ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |36 pages
Introduction
part I|82 pages
Theoretical frames and intersections
chapter 1|14 pages
Theorising disabled people’s sexual, intimate, and erotic lives
chapter 4|12 pages
A critical rethinking of sexuality and dementia
chapter 5|9 pages
Combating old ideas and building identity
chapter 6|13 pages
Sexuality and disability in Brazil
part II|50 pages
Subjugated histories and negotiating traditional discourses
chapter 8|12 pages
Disability rights through reproductive justice
chapter 9|14 pages
Sexuality and the disregard of lived reality
chapter 10|11 pages
Sexuality and physical disability
part III|64 pages
Politics, policies and legal frames across the world
chapter 13|11 pages
“Tick the straight box”
part IV|72 pages
Representation, performance and media
chapter 16|14 pages
Missing in action
part V|98 pages
Sexual narratives and (inter)personal perspectives
chapter 22|16 pages
Flowing desires underneath the chastity belt
chapter 23|11 pages
(Il)licit sex among PWDs in Trinidad and Tobago
chapter 26|13 pages
Through a personal lens
chapter 27|12 pages
“That’s my story”
part VI|100 pages
Accommodation, support and sexual well-being