he editors have set the stage for future conversations, political action, and, really, hotter sex.” - Alexis Shotwell, Signs
This refusal is an opening: what might happen to queer theories and practices of sexuality if we centered disability?. “As a political intellectual project, Sex and Disability aims toward a queer disability refusal of the normalization of our bodies, desires, spaces, imaginations. 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. At the same time, they challenge conceptions of disability in the dominant culture, queer studies, and disability studies.Ĭontributors. 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. 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. 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. 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. The title of this collection of essays, Sex and Disability, unites two terms that the popular imagination often regards as incongruous. Labor and Working-Class History Association.Association for Middle East Women's Studies.
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