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By Robert McRuer,Anna Mollow

The name of this choice of essays, Sex and Disability, unites phrases that the preferred mind's eye frequently regards as incongruous. the most important texts in sexuality stories, together with queer conception, not often point out incapacity, and foundational texts in incapacity reviews don't speak about intercourse in a lot aspect. What if "sex" and "disability" have been understood as in detail comparable thoughts? And what if disabled humans have been noticeable as either matters and gadgets of quite a number erotic wishes and practices? those are one of the questions that this collection's participants have interaction. From a number of perspectives—including literary research, ethnography, and autobiography—they think about how intercourse and incapacity come jointly and the way disabled humans negotiate intercourse and sexual identities in ableist and heteronormative tradition. Queering incapacity experiences, whereas additionally increasing the purview of queer and sexuality stories, those essays shake up notions approximately who and what's horny and sexualizable, what counts as intercourse, and what hope is. whilst, they problem conceptions of incapacity within the dominant tradition, queer reports, and incapacity studies.

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. 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

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