The Routledge Handbook of Disability and Sexuality

Description

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. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of illustrations List of contributors Introduction Introduction: Contextualising disability and sexuality studies Part I Theoretical frames and intersections Chapter 1 Theorising disabled people’s sexual, intimate, and erotic lives: Current theories for disability and sexuality Chapter 2 Theoretical developments: Queer theory meets crip theory Chapter 3 Thinking differently with Deleuze about the sexual capacities of bodies and the case of infertility amongst men with Down syndrome Chapter 4 A critical rethinking of sexuality and dementia: A prolegomenon to future work in critical dementia studies and critical disability studies Chapter 5 Combating old ideas and building identity: Sexual identity development in people with disabilities Chapter 6 Sexuality and disability in Brazil: Contributions to the promotion of agency and social justice Part II Subjugated histories and negotiating traditional discourses Chapter 7 Sexuality, disability and madness in California’s eugenics era Chapter 8 Disability rights through reproductive justice: Eugenic legacies in the abortion wars  Chapter 9 Sexuality and the disregard of lived reality: The sexual abuse of children and young people with disabilities  Chapter 10 Sexuality and physical disability: Perspectives and practice within Orthodox Judaism Part III Politics, policies and legal frames across the world Chapter 11 Sexual citizenship, disability policy and facilitated sex in Sweden Chapter 12 Sexual health and disability in Zimbabwe Chapter 13 “Tick the straight box”: Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) people with intellectual disabilities in the UK Chapter 14 Sexuality and sexual rights of young adults with intellectual disability in Central Java, Indonesia Chapter 15 Advance consent and network consent Part IV Representation, performance and media Chapter 16 Missing in action: Desire, dwarfism and getting it on/off/up—a critique and extension of disability aesthetics Chapter 17 Sex, love and disability on screen Chapter 18 Dynamics of disability and sexuality: Some African literary representations Chapter 19 Flaunting towards otherwise: Queercrip porn, access intimacy and leaving evidence Chapter 20 Desexualising disabled people in the news media Part V Sexual narratives and (inter)personal perspectives Chapter 21 Understanding the lived experiences of transgender youth with disabilities Chapter 22 Flowing desires underneath the chastity belt: Sexual re-exploration journeys of women with changed bodies Chapter 23 (Il)licit sex among PWDs in Trinidad and Tobago: Sexual negotiation or compromise? Chapter 24 Reimagining sexuality in the disability discourse in South Asia Chapter 25 Disability and asexuality? Chapter 26 Through a personal lens: A participatory action research project challenging myths of physical disability and sexuality in South Africa  Chapter 27 “That’s my story”: Transforming sexuality education by, for and with people with intellectual disabilities Part VI Accommodation, support and sexual well-being Chapter 28 Sexual wellness for older adults with a disability: A life course perspective Chapter 29 Toward sexual autonomy and well-being for persons with upper limb mobility limitations: The role of masturbation and sex toys  Chapter 30 Paid sexual services for people with disability: Exploring the range of modalities offered throughout the world Chapter 31 Promoting sexual well-being for women with disabilities through family-centred integrated behavioural healthcare Chapter 32 Occupational therapy’s role empowering sexuality for individuals with disability Chapter 33 Disability and social work: Partnerships to promote sexual well-being Chapter 34 Intersections of disability, sexuality, and spirituality within psychological treatment of people with disabilities Index