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Sex on wheels
- Author:
- RAYNER Tom
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 8.9.99, 1999, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
The myth that people with severe disabilities are unable to have sex and, in any case, are not interested in it, persists. This article explores the contrary opinions and experiences of people with disabilities.
Missing pieces: a chronicle of living with a disability
- Author:
- ZOLA Irving Kenneth
- Publisher:
- Temple University Press
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 246p.
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, PA
The author started out in the role of a social scientist on a seven-day excursion to acquaint himself with an extraordinary experiment in living, Het Dorp, one of the few places in the world designed to promote "the optimum happiness" of those with severe physical disabilities. Neither a medial center nor a nursing home, Het Dorp is a village in the western-most part of the Netherlands. What began as a sociological attempt to describe this unusual setting became, through the author's growing awareness, what can only be called a socio-autobiography. Resuming his prior dependence on a wheelchair, the author experienced his own transformation from someone who is "normal" and "valid" to someone who is "invalid." The routine of Het Dorp became his: he lived in an architecturally modified home, visited the workshops, and shared meals, social events, conversation, and perceptions with the remarkably diverse residents. The author confronts some rarely discussed issues, the self-image of a person with a chronic disability, how one fills one's time, how one deals with authority and dependence, and love and sex.
Selling your soul to the devil: an autoethnography of pain, pleasure and the quest for a child
- Author:
- NEVILLE-JAN Ann
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 19(2), March 2004, pp.113-127.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
In this article the author presents an autoethnography in the form of a quest narrative linked as a self-reflexive text to her continuing research of children and adults with spina bifida. The story centers on the themes of chronic illness, pain and sexuality, highlighting gaps in the literature related to these topics. She narrates her story as a manifesto for women with physical impairments to break their silence and talk about their sexuality. She recommends autoethnography as a method of understanding disability as embodied.
Pictures and silences: memories of sexual abuse of disabled people
- Author:
- ZAVIRSEK Darja
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Welfare, 11(4), October 2002, pp.270-285.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article shows that both the sexual and asexual identity of impaired persons are invariably fashioned within the institutional arrangement of domination and subjugation. It shows that if disabled persons are seen as asexual or if they are sexualised, they cannot escape sexual violence, which is not an aberration, but is intrinsic to the social construction of disability. It claims that ignoring the memories of sexual abuse is part of a subtle and unintentional discrimination, which reflects a continuity of prejudices and hatred toward disabled children and adults in the private realm as well as in public care. People from ethnic minorities, such as Roma, are still today more often diagnosed as mentally disabled, which shows that the disability diagnosis has to be seen as part of cultural responses towards an economically and socially marginalised group.