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Sex and disability / Robert McRuer and Anna Mollow, editors.

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection 2012 Available online

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
McRuer, Robert, 1966-
Mollow, Anna, 1970-
Series:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
People with disabilities--Sexual behavior.
People with disabilities.
Sociology of disability.
Sex (Psychology).
Disability studies.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (432 pages)
Place of Publication:
Durham, N.C. ; London : Duke University Press, 2012.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
This collection brings together scholars and artists in disability studies, sexuality, queer theory, and feminism, to show how much sexuality studies and disability studies have to learn from each other.
Contents:
A sexual culture for disabled people / Tobin Siebers
Bridging theory and experience : a critical-interpretive ethnography of sexuality and disability / Russell Shuttleworth
The sexualized body of the child : parents and the politics of "voluntary" sterilization of people labeled intellectually disabled / Michel Desjardins
Dismembering the lynch mob : intersecting narratives of disability, race, and sexual menace / Michelle Jarman
"That cruel spectacle" : the extraordinary body eroticized in Lucas Malet's The History of Sir Richard Calmady / Rachel O'Connell
Pregnant men : modernism, disability, and biofuturity / Michael Davidson
Touching histories : personality, disability, and sex in the 1930s / David Serlin
Leading with your head : on the borders of disability, sexuality, and the nation / Nicole Markotic and Robert McRuer
Normate sex and its discontents / Abby L. Wilkerson
I'm not the man I used to be : Sex, HIV, and cultural "responsibility" / Chris Bell
Golem girl gets lucky / Riva Lehrer
Fingered / Lezlie Frye
Sex as "Spock" : autism, sexuality, and autobiographical narrative / Rachael Groner
Is sex disability? : queer theory and the disability drive / Anna Mollow
An excess of sex : sex addiction as disability / Lennard J. Davis
Desire and disgust : my ambivalent adventures in devoteeism / Alison Kafer
Hearing aid lovers, pretenders, and deaf wannabes : the fetishizing of hearing / Kristen Harmon.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record
ISBN:
9786613414076
9781283414074
1283414074
9780822394877
0822394871
OCLC:
775756064

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