The Routledge Handbook of Disability and Sexuality Routledge International Handbooks Series

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.

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

Russell Shuttleworth is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Deakin University, Australia. An anthropologist, social worker and disability support worker/personal assistant by training, his major research areas include the social and cultural construction of disability and impairment, disability and sexuality and disability and masculinities.

Linda Mona has worked as a clinical psychologist for the VA Long Beach Healthcare System in California, USA, for the past 19 years. As the clinical director of spinal cord injury/disorder psychology, she has prioritised disability affirmative psychological services and sexual health assessment and treatment for people with disabilities.