Theorizing Sex and Disability: An Interdisciplinary Approach

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016. This volume aims to unpack the points of intersection not only between disability and sex, but the related facets of gender, sexuality, desire, and romance that constitute the broader theoretical and discursive constellation of sex and sexuality. Utilizing an interdisciplinary model that culls upon the related fields of sociology, anthropology, feminist theory, gender theory, queer studies, art history, and film studies (to name but a few), this volume seek to not only dismantle the dominant narratives of the disabled body as asexual and undesirable - a figure to be pitied, fear, or repulsed by the able-bodied - but also illustrates the myriad ways in which the disabled subject is indeed a sexually autonomous figure that is at once both desired and desiring. Finally, in seeking to challenge hegemonic constructions of a supposed 'normal' sexual and romantic desire vis-a-vis disability theory and subjectivity, this eBook also speaks to broader questions around the role of intersectionality within contemporary models of disability discourse and theory.