Love, Sex, and Disability: The Pleasures of Care examines care and intimacy in relationships in which one partner has a physical disability and the other partner is able-bodied. In the first part of the book I examine dominant constructions (e.g., film, television, research in the rehabilitation and therapy fields) which represent disabled/nondisabled intimate relationships as sexless, burdensome partnerships. Drawing on interview data and self-representations in autobiographies and film, part two shows how disabled/nondisabled couples counter dominant narratives, revising traditional gender roles and queering popular understandings of sex and care.
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