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Sexuality, Disability, and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus


Sexuality, Disability, and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus

Paperback by Gallop, Jane

Sexuality, Disability, and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus

£21.99

ISBN:
9781478001614
Publication Date:
11 Jan 2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Duke University Press
Pages:
152 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 8 - 9 May 2024
Sexuality, Disability, and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus

Description

Drawing on her own experiences with late-onset disability and its impact on her sex life, along with her expertise as a cultural critic, Jane Gallop explores how disability and aging work to undermine one's sense of self. She challenges common conceptions that equate the decline of bodily potential and ability with a permanent and irretrievable loss, arguing that such a loss can be both temporary and positively transformative. With Sexuality, Disability, and Aging, Gallop explores and celebrates how sexuality transforms and becomes more queer in the lives of the no longer young and the no longer able while at the same time demonstrating how disability can generate new forms of sexual fantasy and erotic possibility.

Contents

Acknowledgments 1x Introduction: Theoretical Underpinnings 1 Crip Theory 1 Aging and Queer Temporality 5 Aging and the Phallus 13 The Queer Phallus 20 Anecdotal Theory 25 1. High Heels and Wheelchairs 31 The Story 31 The Ending 36 City Sidewalks 40 Feminism and High Heels 46 Gender and Disability 52 The Phallus in the Wheelchair 58 The Ending (Reprise) 64 2. Post-prostate Sex 67 The Story 67 Strange Temporalities 74 Pre-cum and the Coital Imperative 81 Resisting the Coital Imperative 92 Longitudinal Sexuality 95 Conclusion 103 The Phallus and Its Temporalities 103 Longitudinal Identities 107 Notes 113 Bibliography 127 Index 133

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