Love, Sex, and Disability : : The Pleasures of Care / / Sarah Smith Rainey.

In this exploration of intimate relationships between people with physical disabilities and those without, Sarah Smith Rainey shatters the myth of sexless, burdensome partnerships—and in its place reveals a rich and rewarding continuum of emotional and physical intimacies. Rainey draws on interviews...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]
©2011
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Disability in Society
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Physical Description:1 online resource (197 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction: Love, Sex, and Disability
  • Part 1 Mainstream Representations
  • 2 Images in Popular Culture
  • 3 The View from Medicine, Rehabilitation, and Nursing
  • Part 2 Contesting the Mainstream
  • 4 Flexible Gender Roles
  • 5 Pride and Resistance
  • 6 Love
  • 7 The Sexual Pleasure of Care
  • 8 New Understandings of Care, Gender, and Sexuality
  • Appendix A: Methods
  • Appendix B: Self-Representations and Articles Analyzed
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Book