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But it's not all about the sex: mothering, normalisation and young learning disabled people

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posted on 2023-07-26, 12:38 authored by Chrissie Rogers
This paper is about mothering, young learning disabled people, their sexualised and relationship lives and normalisation - not through the lens of the disabled person, but via a mothers perspective and theoretical discussion. As a mother who has a learning disabled daughter, a feminist and an academic my own mothering experience, my Ph.D. research and social theory are woven throughout this paper with the intention of opening up debate about sex, intimacy and normalisation, and how these impact upon young learning disabled people. I suggest that the relationship between sex, reproduction, intimacy and intellectual impairment and a project to decipher what it means to be human in all its dirty glory are also part of the discourse that needs to be discussed experientially and theoretically. So much so that the messy world within which we all live can be variously and differently constructed.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

25

Issue number

1

Page range

63-74

Publication title

Disability and Society

ISSN

1360-0508

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Language

  • other

Legacy posted date

2011-04-28

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Health, Social Care & Education (until September 2018)

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