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Addressing issues of sexuality with adolescents with disabilities
- Authors:
- GORDON Phyllis A., TSCHOPP Molly K., FELDMAN David
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 21(5), October 2004, pp.513-527.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Adolescents with disabilities frequently experience considerable scrutiny from their non-disabled peers concerning their perceived differences. Consequently they may possess negative self-views and often have difficulties in friendship and intimate relationship development. Limited research has examined sexual development of adolescents with disabilities. Discusses issues related to the sociological and psychological implications of disability and the manner in which they impact sexual development of adolescents
Motherhood and disability: children and choices
- Author:
- PRILLELTENSKY Ora
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 248p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
This book explores the intersection between motherhood and physical disability. It is based on a study that focused on the lived experiences of women with physical disabilities, mothers and non-mothers.What meaning does motherhood have for these women? What is it like for them? What messages do they receive about themselves as women, with or without children? What barriers do they foresee and/or come across? These issues are explored from the vantage point of disabled women with and without children.
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.
Sexualities: personal lives and social policy
- Editor:
- CARABINE Jean
- Publisher:
- Policy Press,|Open University
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 184p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This book explores the choices that people make about their sexuality and how these can transform their personal lives. It analyses how social policy informs and responds to such choices through an examination of normative assumptions about sexuality and its role in forming, regulating and constituting welfare subjects, discourses, theories, provisions and practices. The authors illustrate that sexuality is simultaneously central and marginal to the concerns of social policy.They place particular emphasis on social policy as a site of regulation that restricts and constrains our personal lives, but also highlight how social policy might be used as an instrument of positive change.These processes are explored through such issues as: the significance of gender relations and identities in normative constructions of heterosexual marriage, the nuclear family and parenthood; the regulatory effects of policy-making on young people’s sexual experiences and activity and their strategies of resistance; and the normative standards of sexuality and the extent to which these have marginalized and silenced the sexuality of disabled people.