Exploring Sexuality and Disability
eBook - ePub

Exploring Sexuality and Disability

A Guide for Human Service Professionals

  1. 392 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Exploring Sexuality and Disability

A Guide for Human Service Professionals

About this book

Offering a current, comprehensive, and intersectional guide for students, practitioners, and researchers, this book synthesizes existing scholarship on culturally responsive practices that assist in exploring, understanding, and affirming the sexuality(ies) of disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent, and Mad individuals.

Drawing on an intersectional framework, it integrates insights drawn from an interdisciplinary body of scholarship including psychology, social work, sociology, history, political science, women and gender studies, cultural studies, and education along with perspectives from the practitioners who are actively defining the next generation of best practices.

By highlighting the incredible resilience and resistance of disabled individuals' and communities' sexuality and sexual well-being, this book challenges narratives that rely primarily on a one-dimensional view derived from the medical model and the view of disability as something to be "fixed" – or at least tolerated – rather than celebrated. In a world that pathologizes and devalues the sexual existence of disabled individuals, it illustrates how to create thriving communities and relationships, and how they can organize to find their voice, providing a counter-narrative of empowerment that fosters hopefulness, power, and health.

It will be of interest to all scholars, students, and professionals across a variety of professions, including social work, psychology, counseling, policy, healthcare, education, community organizing, and multiple social service settings.

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Yes, you can access Exploring Sexuality and Disability by Shanna Katz Kattari in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Disabilities in Sociology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Contributors
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction
  11. Part One History and Community Work
  12. Part Two Exploring the Specifics
  13. Part Three Diverse Types of Practice
  14. Part Four Across Intersecting Identities
  15. Index