Explores the sexuality and reproduction rights of individuals with intellectual disabilities in the US --individuals with intellectual disabilities have been historically subjected to various efforts to restrict their sexual expression and reproductive capabilities including forced sterilization, invasive birth control methods, and sex segregated living arrangements--looks at legal cases, sex education material, journalistic accounts, and cultural representations since the 1970s to the present to determine to what extent past eugenic perceptions of sexuality influence contemporary management and governance of an individual's sexual rights --advocates for the potentiality of individuals with intellectual disabilities to lead sexually fulfilling lives
Explores the sexuality and reproduction rights of individuals with intellectual disabilities in the US --individuals with intellectual disabilities have been historically subjected to various efforts to restrict their sexual expression and reproductive capabilities including forced sterilization, invasive birth control methods, and sex segregated living arrangements--looks at legal cases, sex education material, journalistic accounts, and cultural representations since the 1970s to the present to determine to what extent past eugenic perceptions of sexuality influence contemporary management and governance of an individual's sexual rights --advocates for the potentiality of individuals with intellectual disabilities to lead sexually fulfilling lives
Contents
Preface: Violations of Sexual Life
Introduction: Sexual Ableism Exposed
1. Questions of Consent: Rethinking Competence and Sexual Abuse
2. Pleasure Principles: From Harm Reduction to Diversity in Sex
Education
3. Sex Can Wait, Masturbate: The Politics of Masturbation
Training
4. Reproductive Intrusions: The Fight against Forced
Sterilization
5. Not Just an Able-Bodied Privilege: Toward an Ethics of
Parenting
6. Screening Sexuality: Media Representations of Intellectual
Disability
7. Smashing Disability: Sexual Transgression and the Lady Boys of
Bangkok
Conclusion: Dismantling Ableist Assumptions
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Michael Gill is assistant professor of gender, women's, and sexuality studies at Grinnell College.
"Already Doing It is consistent and radical in its insistence on
pleasure as a gauge for thinking about discourses of intellectual
disability. It is an indispensable contribution to the burgeoning
scholarship on sex and disability."—Robert McRuer, author of Crip
Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
"This book will provide new and interesting ideas for many people
(LGBT or not) working at all levels of primary and secondary
school, whether as teachers or otherwise...If lessons and ideas
from this book were fully taken on board, I could see a real
difference being made to the way sexuality is viewed in
school."—Sex Education"An accessible and interesting
read."—CHOICE"Michael Gill’s Already Doing It: Intellectual
Disability and Sexual Agency is an important book at an important
time in the history of sexuality and people with intellectual
disability."—PsycCritiques"Provocative and thought provoking, the
text, through specific examples, urges the reader to examine actual
individuals and their varied sexual expression in a new light. A
successful argument for rights of the intellectually
disabled."—Lavender Magazine"A powerful call for the necessity of
supporting sexual citizenship for persons with disability through
liberatory action efforts that challenge sexual ableism."—H-Net
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