Sex and Disability

Robert McRuer, Anna Mollow (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

432 Seiten

2012
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-5154-2 (ISBN)

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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.

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 Markotić, Robert McRuer, Anna Mollow, Rachel O’Connell, Russell Shuttleworth, David Serlin, Tobin Siebers, Abby L. Wilkerson

Robert McRuer is Professor of English at the George Washington University. He is the author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability and The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities. Anna Mollow is a PhD candidate in English at the University of California, Berkeley.

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction / Anna Mollow and Robert McRuer 1

Part I: Access 1

1. A Sexual Culture for Disabled People / Tobin Siebers 37

2. Bridging Theory and Experience: A Critical-Interpretive Ethnography of Sexuality and Disability / Russell Shuttleworth 54

3. The Sexualized Body of the Child: Parents and the Politics of "Voluntary" Sterilization of People Labeled Intellectually Disabled / Michel Desjardins 69

Part II: Histories

4. Dismembering the Lynch Mob: Intersecting Narratives of Disability, Race, and Sexual Menace / Michelle Jarman 89

5. "That Cruel Spectacle": The Extraordinary Body Eroticized in Lucas Malet's The History of Sir Richard Calmady / Rachel O'Connell 108

6. Pregnant Men: Modernism, Disability, and Biofuturity / Michael Davidson 123

7. Touching Histories: Personality, Disability, and Sex in the 1930s / David Serlin 145

Part III: Spaces

8. Leading with Your Head: On the Borders of Disability, Sexuality, and the Nation / Nicole Markotic and Robert McRuer 165

9. Normate Sex and Its Discontents / Abby L. Wilkerson 183

10. I'm Not the Man I Used to Be: Sex, HIV, and Cultural "Responsibility" / Chris Bell 208

Part IV: Lives

11. Golem Girl Gets Lucky / Riva Lehrer 231

12. Fingered / Lezlie Frye 256

13. Sex as "Spock": Autism, Sexuality, and Autobiographical Narrative / Rachel Groner 263

Part V: Desires

14. Is Sex Disability?: Queer Theory and the Disability Drive / Anna Mollow 285

15. An Excess of Sex: Sex Addiction as Disability / Lennard J. Davis 313

16. Desire and Disgust: My Ambivalent Adventures in Divoteeism / Alison Kafer 331

17. Hearing Aid Lovers, Pretenders, and Deaf Wannabees: The Fetishizing of Hearing / Kristen Harmon 355

Works Cited 373

Contributors 393

Index 399

Zusatzinfo	11 illustrations, 3 figures
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Partnerschaft / Sexualität
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8223-5154-4 / 0822351544
ISBN-13	978-0-8223-5154-2 / 9780822351542
Zustand	Neuware