Diverse Voices of Disabled Sexualities in the Global South

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Situating Disabled Sexual Voices in the Global South

   • Paul Chappell

   Pages 1-25

3. Cultural Aesthetics of Disabled Sexual Lives and Bodies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. Sexual Pleasure, Intimacy and Desire: The Mapping of My Brown Skin

      • Fernanda Segura

      Pages 29-31

   3. Shooting Back and (re)framing: Challenging Dominant Representations of People with Physical Disabilities in South Africa

      • Xanthe Hunt, Leslie Swartz, Stine Hellum Braathen, Mark Carew, Mussa Chiwaula, Poul Rohleder

      Pages 33-53

   4. Fashioning Selves: Femininity, Sexuality and Disabled Women in India

      • Nandini Ghosh

      Pages 55-73

   5. Defining Me

      • Shanali Perera

      Pages 75-76

   6. Disability Porn: The Fetishisation and Liberation of Disabled Sex

      • Sumayya Ebrahim

      Pages 77-99

4. Desiring Disability: Love, Relationships and Sexual Intimacy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101

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   2. How Disability “Killed” My Sexuality

      • Farai Chisi

      Pages 103-107

   3. Navigating Dating and Relationships with a Disability in Jamaica

      • Monica Bartley

      Pages 109-126

   4. Being Disabled, Black and Queer in South Africa: A Personal Journey

      • Sisanda Msekele

      Pages 127-130

   5. Candid Conversations: Narratives of Young Adults with Disabilities in Sri Lanka on Intimate Partner Relationships

      • Shyamani Hettiarachchi, Senarath Attanayake

      Pages 131-150

   6. Experiences of Disabled Commercial Sex Workers in Zimbabwe

      • Tafadzwa Rugoho

      Pages 151-165

   7. Informed Sexuality: The Influence of Lack of Information on the Sexuality, Relationships and Reproductive Health of Deaf Women in Addis Ababa

      • Johanna M. F. Boersma, Rachele Tardi, Elizabeth Lockwood, Woinshet Girma Ayansa

      Pages 167-184

   8. Disabled Vagina Monologues: Ethiopia

      • Elizabeth Negussie Desta

      Pages 185-186

5. Sexual Access, Citizenship and Rights

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187

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   2. Paternal Masturbation of Profoundly Disabled Son: South African Case Study

      • Marlene de Beer

      Pages 189-220

   3. Surviving on the Margins of Society in China

      • Xiaoyan Zhao, Qianqian Huang

      Pages 221-223

   4. Sexual Rights Before and After the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A Columbian Experience

      • Andrea Padilla-Muñoz

      Pages 225-238

This volume aims to critically engage with constructs and experiences of disabled sexualities through Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. In doing so, it is hoped that the questions raised, relfections, analyses and arguments will provide readers with a catalyst through which to (re)think disabled sexualities from the perspective of the Global South. What makes this edited volume unique is besides chapters from emerging academics and disability activists who either live or work in the Global South, it also includes personal contributions from disabled people across the Global South. This volume takes a broad perspective on disabled sexualities addressing such areas as gender, race, culture, colonialism, body image, sexual pleasure, sexuality education, sexual access, sexual and reproductive health services, queer sexualities, and sexual rights and justice. The volume will be of interest to international and national organisations for people with disabilities, gender and sexuality researchers, health professionals, social workers, academics and students at all higher education and training institutions interested in disability, gender queer and sexuality studies.

• disabled sexualities
• Global South
• Body image and disability
• disabled women in India
• Malawi
• South Africa
• Addis Ababa
• China
• reproductive health rights
• sexual justice research
• disability studies
• gender and sexuality

“This important text brings a host of new voices to the field of disability and sexuality, beginning an essential, broadening corrective to our academic imaginary in this area. The culturally and geographically diverse contributors fling open a window to new stories and ways of being, urgently demanding that we pay attention. It is essential reading for scholars in disability and sexuality, and is set to catalyse a wealth of new research in Global South contexts.” (Dr Brian Watermeyer, Senior Research Officer, Clinical Psychologist, Disability Studies Programme, Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa)

• Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  Paul Chappell

• Social Work Department, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

  Marlene de Beer

Dr. Paul Chappell is a researcher in the Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.


Ms Marlene de Beer is a lecturer at the Social Work Department, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

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