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Sexy like us : disability, humor, and sexuality / Teresa Milbrodt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milbrodt, Teresa, 1978- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- People with disabilities.
- People with disabilities--Sexual behavior.
- Blind.
- Wit and humor.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 255 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]
- Contents:
- Invitation/invocation: for words
- The funny, the fraught, and forms of foreplay
- Meditation 1: on holes
- Crip talk: humor and reclaiming "cripple" and "crip" in disability communities
- Meditation 2: on blindness
- "Today I had an eye appointment, and I'm still blind": crip humor, storytelling, and narrative positioning of the disabled self
- Mediation 3: on childhood
- Comically cripping sex in the virtual public
- Meditation 4: on metaphor
- "My other ride is my vibrator": sex, disability, and the emancipatory potential of jokes
- Mediation 5: on sexuality
- Sexy like us: expanding notions of disability and sexuality through burlesque performance
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 08, 2022).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Milbrodt, Teresa, 1978- Sexy like us
- ISBN:
- 9781496838964
- 1496838963
- 9781496838933
- 1496838939
- 9781496838940
- 1496838947
- 9781496838957
- 1496838955
- Publisher Number:
- 99991381930
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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