Routledge Handbook of Disability and Sexuality

This handbook provides a much-needed holistic overview of disability and sexuality research and scholarship. With authors from a wide range of disciplines and representing a diversity of nationalities it provides a multi-perspectival view that fully captures the diversity of issues and outlooks.Organised into six parts the contributors explore long-standing issues such as the psychological interpersonal social political and cultural barriers to sexual access that disabled people face and their struggle for sexual rights and participation. The volume also engages issues that have been on the periphery of the discourse such as sexual accommodations and support aimed at facilitating disabled peoples sexual well-being; the socio-sexual tensions confronting disabled people with intersecting stigmatised identities such as LGBTBI or asexual; and the sexual concerns of disabled people in the Global South. It interrogates disability and sexuality from diverse perspectives from more traditional psychological and sociological models to various subversive and post-theoretical perspectives and queer theory. This handbook examines the cutting-edge and sometimes ethically contentious concerns that have been repressed in the field.With current international and comprehensive content this book is essential reading for students academics and researchers in the areas of disability gender and sexuality as well as applied disciplines such as healthcare practitioners counsellors psychology trainees and social workers.