Already Doing It: Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Already Doing It: Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency
By (Author) Michael Gill
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st April 2015
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Gender studies, gender groups
Social welfare and social services
Human rights, civil rights
362.3
Physical Properties
Paperback
288
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 38mm
Description
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 torestrict their sexual expression and reproductive capabilities including forced sterilization, invasivebirth control methods, and sex segregated living arrangements--looks at legal cases, sex education material, journalistic accounts, and cultural representationssince the 1970s to the present to determine to what extent past eugenic perceptions of sexualityinfluence contemporary management and governance of an individual's sexual rights--advocates for the potentiality of individuals with intellectual disabilities to lead sexually fulfillinglives
Reviews
"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 Gills 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
Author Bio
Michael Gill is assistant professor of gender, womens, and sexuality studies at Grinnell College.
