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Already Doing It: Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency

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Description for Already Doing It: Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2. BIC Classification: JFFG; JFSJ; JKS; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.

Why is the sexuality of people with intellectual disabilities often deemed “risky” or “inappropriate” by teachers, parents, support staff, medical professionals, judges, and the media? Should sexual citizenship depend on IQ? Confronting such questions head-on, Already Doing It exposes the “sexual ableism” that denies the reality of individuals who, despite the restrictions they face, actively make decisions about their sexual lives.

Tracing the history of efforts in the United States to limit the sexual freedoms of such persons⎯using methods such as forced sterilization, invasive birth control, and gender-segregated living arrangements—Michael Gill demonstrates that these widespread practices stemmed from dominant views of ... Read more

A powerfully argued call for sexual and reproductive justice for people with intellectual disabilities, Already Doing It urges a shift away from the compulsion to manage “deviance” (better known today as harm reduction) because the right to pleasure and intellectual disability are not mutually exclusive. In so doing, it represents a vital new contribution to the ongoing debate over who, in the United States, should be allowed to have sex, reproduce, marry, and raise children.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816682980
SKU
V9780816682980
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About Michael Gill
Michael Gill is assistant professor of gender, women’s, and sexuality studies at Grinnell College.

Reviews for Already Doing It: Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency
"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) ... Read more

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