Few people these days would oppose making the public realm of space, social services and jobs accessible to women and men with disabilities. But what about access to the private realm of desire and sexuality? How can one also facilitate access to that, in ways that respect the integrity of disabled adults, and also of those people who work with and care for them?Loneliness and Its Opposite documents how two countries generally imagined to be progressive engage with these questions in very different ways. Denmark and Sweden are both liberal welfare states, but they diverge dramatically when it comes to sexuality and disability. In Denmark, the erotic lives of people with disabilities are acknowledged and facilitated. In Sweden, they are denied and blocked. Why do these differences exist, and how do both facilitation and hindrance play out in practice?Loneliness and Its Opposite charts complex boundaries between private and public, love and sex, work and intimacy, and affection and abuse. It shows how providing disabled adults with access to sexual lives is not just crucial for a life with dignity. It is an issue of fundamental social justice with far reaching consequences for everyone.
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DON KULICK AND JENS RYDSTRÖM
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DEDIC ATED TO THOSE WHO MAKE LOVE AND EROTIC RELATIONSHIPS POSSIBLE.
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We know much more about the pubîc dîmensîon of dîsabîîty than about îts prîvate dîmensîon; we are at the begîn-nîng of a perîod of sexua învestîgatîon for dîsabed peope, where înformatîon îs scarce and ethnography and sharîng of practîces need to be pursued. —Tobîn Sîebers,Disability Theory
:: When ît comes to sexuaîty, every handîcapped person knows exacty what they’re not aowed to do.The probem îs that most of them don’t know what theyareaowed to do. —Vîvî Hoænder, Danîsh sexua advîsor
::the most radîca gesture of Sometîmes a can be to say,“I can’t do ît mysef.” —Chrîstîne Byund, Swedîsh dîsabîîty rîghts actîvîst