Love, Sex, and Disability: The Pleasures of Care examines care and intimacy in relationships in which one partner has a
physical disability and the other partner is able-bodied. In the first part of the book I examine
dominant constructions (e.g., film, television, research in the rehabilitation
and therapy fields) which represent disabled/nondisabled intimate relationships
as sexless, burdensome partnerships. Drawing on interview data and
self-representations in autobiographies and film, part two shows how
disabled/nondisabled couples counter dominant narratives, revising traditional
gender roles and queering popular understandings of sex and care.
The book is available on Amazon and from Lynne Rienner Publishers.
