{"product_id":"sex-and-disability-hardback-9780822351405","title":"Sex and Disability (Hardback) 9780822351405","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSex and Disability\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRobert McRuer (Edited by), Anna Mollow (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780822351405\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 January 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e432 pages, 11 illustrations, 3 figures\u003cbr\u003e24.5 x 19.6 x 3 cm, 0.717 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"This is a big collection, literally, politically, and theoretically. With essays drawing on sociology, anthropology, literary studies, history, and cultural studies, as well as some more lyrical, performative, and autobiographical, \u003ci\u003eSex and Disability\u003c\/i\u003e will be indispensable for a wide range of audiences in gender studies, disability studies, queer studies and beyond.\"-\u003cb\u003eSiobhan B. Somerville\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eQueering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"This riveting collection of essays is a fascinating rethinking of what sex and disability could feel like together, affirmatively and generatively. Opening with a candid, frank introduction that moves deftly between the autobiographical and the political, the volume mounts a serious challenge to the sex-ableism of queer theory and the tendency to think of sex and disability in negative terms. Having read about pregnant men, the vagaries of touch, amputee devotees, and sex addiction, the reader will emerge uncertain about what exactly sex is, who has it, and with what. More trenchantly, these works demand an acknowledgement of how notions of ableism severely limit broader experiences of sexual erotics, intimacy, and arousal. Kudos to the editors for undertaking this important project.\"-\u003cb\u003eJasbir K. Puar\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eTerrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“As a political intellectual project, \u003ci\u003eSex and Disability\u003c\/i\u003e aims toward a queer disability refusal of the normalization of our bodies, desires, spaces, imaginations. This refusal is an opening: what might happen to queer theories and practices of sexuality if we centered disability? ... [T]he editors have set the stage for future conversations, political action, and, really, hotter sex.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Alexis Shotwell (Signs) \u003cdiv\u003e“The vast majority of the contributions that engage with queer and disability theory here are, by turns, beautifully written, engaging, perceptive, hilarious, and nuanced. . . . [A]n intellectually invigorating read.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Anna Hamilton (Bitch) \u003cdiv\u003e“[S]timulating, thought-provoking, and fascinating. Many of the entries left me with food for thought, including some intriguing reframing of social issues that will inform my own work in the future.”\u003c\/div\u003e - S. E. Smith (Global Comment) \u003cdiv\u003e“Although sexuality studies and disability studies have independently generated much scholarship, few have sufficiently bridged the disciplines as extensively as this anthology and showed as convincingly that \"sex and disability\" do in fact come together.... Recommended.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Y. Kiuchi (Choice) \u003cdiv\u003e“[R]apturous and sophisticated in both scope and nuance.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Jacob Miller (Cyberhetoric) \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSex and Disability\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most important volumes to appear in disability studies in years and, I would hazard to guess, in sexuality studies as well.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Bruce Henderson (Journal of Sex Research) \u003cdiv\u003e“This book shows sex to be at work in encounters and objects not usually considered to be erotic, and marks the terrifying and exhilarating ways in which disability turns up in unexpected places. Such an undressing of sex and disability as is provided in this collection is sure to have a significant impact on disability studies in the years to come.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Kelly Fritsch (Canadian Journal of Disability Studies) \u003cdiv\u003e“Though McRuer and Mollow acknowledge that they are not the first to bridge these fields, what they do here, and quite impressively, is to harness the energies of this emerging discourse into a single volume at a defining moment in disability studies and disability culture. . . . One of the anthology’s most exciting elements is the complicated interplay its essays stage between body theory and embodied experience.” \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e - Cynthia Barounis (symploke) \u003cdiv\u003e“Mollow and McRuer have edited an important book. The collection is an exciting contribution to the fields of disability, queer studies, and queer theory. Every chapter is an inspirational read, but taken together, the contributions provide insightful discussion with layers of reflection that would be difficult to incorporate otherwise. The volume not only shows the multiple ways sex and disability are intertwined, but also invites readers to think beyond established understandings of those concepts, thereby challenging boundaries and transforming ideas of disability and sex.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Nina Mackert (H-Disability, H-Net Reviews)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThe title of this collection of essays, \u003ci\u003eSex and Disability\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003c\/i\u003e. 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\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Anna Mollow and Robert McRuer 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Access 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. A Sexual Culture for Disabled People \/ Tobin Siebers 37\u003cbr\u003e 2. Bridging Theory and Experience: A Critical-Interpretive Ethnography of Sexuality and Disability \/ Russell Shuttleworth 54\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Sexualized Body of the Child: Parents and the Politics of \"\u003cbr\u003eVoluntary\"\u003cbr\u003e Sterilization of People Labeled Intellectually Disabled \/ Michel Desjardins 69\u003cbr\u003e Part II: Histories \u003cbr\u003e 4. Dismembering the Lynch Mob: Intersecting Narratives of Disability, Race, and Sexual Menace \/ Michelle Jarman 89\u003cbr\u003e 5. \"\u003cbr\u003eThat Cruel Spectacle\"\u003cbr\u003e: The Extraordinary Body Eroticized in Lucas Malet's \u003ci\u003eThe History of Sir Richard Calmady\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Rachel O'Connell 108\u003cbr\u003e 6. Pregnant Men: Modernism, Disability, and Biofuturity \/ Michael Davidson 123\u003cbr\u003e 7. Touching Histories: Personality, Disability, and Sex in the 1930s \/ David Serlin 145\u003cbr\u003e Part III: Spaces \u003cbr\u003e 8. Leading with Your Head: On the Borders of Disability, Sexuality, and the Nation \/ Nicole Markotic and Robert McRuer 165\u003cbr\u003e 9. Normate Sex and Its Discontents \/ Abby L. Wilkerson 183\u003cbr\u003e 10. I'm Not the Man I Used to Be: Sex, HIV, and Cultural \"\u003cbr\u003eResponsibility\"\u003cbr\u003e \/ Chris Bell 208\u003cbr\u003e Part IV: Lives \u003cbr\u003e 11. Golem Girl Gets Lucky \/ Riva Lehrer 231\u003cbr\u003e 12. Fingered \/ Lezlie Frye 256\u003cbr\u003e 13. Sex as \"\u003cbr\u003eSpock\"\u003cbr\u003e: Autism, Sexuality, and Autobiographical Narrative \/ Rachel Groner 263\u003cbr\u003e Part V: Desires \u003cbr\u003e 14. Is Sex Disability?: Queer Theory and the Disability Drive \/ Anna Mollow 285\u003cbr\u003e 15. An Excess of Sex: Sex Addiction as Disability \/ Lennard J. Davis 313\u003cbr\u003e 16. Desire and Disgust: My Ambivalent Adventures in Divoteeism \/ Alison Kafer 331\u003cbr\u003e 17. Hearing Aid Lovers, Pretenders, and Deaf Wannabees: The Fetishizing of Hearing \/ Kristen Harmon 355\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited 373\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 393\u003cbr\u003e Index 399\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574570742040,"sku":"9780822351405","price":89.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sex-and-disability-hardback-9780822351405","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}