Locating sexuality in disability experience, a report from disability studies: Theory, policy, and practice, the inaugural conference of the Disability Studies Association (original) (raw)

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The papers and subsequent discussion that composed the symposium, “Toward an Interactive and Integrative Model of Disability and Sexuality Research,” provided a deliberate first step toward a synthesis of disability studies and the sexual lives and experiences of disabled people. Approaching the intersections of sexuality and disability from different levels of analysis and indicating varied opportunities for inquiry, the four panelists were united in their common desire to encourage scholars and activists in both disability studies and sexuality studies to take the sexuality of disabled people seriously as they conduct research, teach, and advocate in the arenas of policy, practice, and theory.

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1. Department of Social and Behavioral Science, University of California, 3333 California Street, Suite 455, Box 0612, 94143-0612, San Francisco, CA
   Brian R. Grossman
2. 6010 Sacramento Ave, 94804, Richmond, CA
   Russell P. Shuttleworth
3. Special Education & Human Sexuality Studies, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave., Burk Hall 154, 94132, San Francisco, CA
   Philip M. Prinz

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Grossman, B.R., Shuttleworth, R.P. & Prinz, P.M. Locating sexuality in disability experience, a report from disability studies: Theory, policy, and practice, the inaugural conference of the Disability Studies Association.Sex Res Soc Policy 1, 91–96 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1525/srsp.2004.1.2.91

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