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Crip Love Onscreen: Representations of Love, Sex, and Disability

Crip Love Onscreen: Representations of Love, Sex, and Disability


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Crip Love Onscreen: Representations of Love, Sex, and Disability examines how disabled people's sexual lives--including pleasure/sex, love, pregnancy, and sexual violence--are represented in popular film and television. Analyzing a variety of films and TV shows from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, Sarah Rainey-Smithback traces patterns in disability representation that ignore or distort many of the realities of crip sexuality. These patterns of sexual representation tend to uphold compulsory able-bodiedness, heteronormativity, and privacy norms--what Rainey-Smithback terms "neoliberal love values," or standards that celebrate normative forms of sexual desire, bodies, and intimacy practices. As disability representation increases, though, new possibilities are emerging. Crip Love Onscreen also draws attention to the exceptional through a close reading of screen narratives (such as 50 First Dates, Love and Other Drugs, American Horror Story: Freak Show, and more) that push against neoliberal, heteronormative, and ableist values. Drawing on the work of queer/crip scholars and activists, Rainey-Smithback uncovers glimpses of what Tobin Siebers calls a "sexual culture for disabled people"--a space and way of being that expands sexual access and sexual experience.

About the Author :
Sarah Rainey-Smithback is Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Bowling Green State University. She is the author of Love, Sex, and Disability: The Pleasures of Care.

Review :
"Moving beyond notions of 'authenticity' and 'accuracy' that often inform conversations about cultural representations of disabled people and their sexualities, Rainey-Smithback instead interrogates the cultural values embedded in such representations. Wide-ranging and ambitious, Crip Love Onscreen offers insights and conceptual tools that will prove indispensable to anyone interested in sex, disability, television, and film." --Anna Mollow, coeditor of Sex and Disability "Crip Love Onscreen showcases the radical ways that disabled sexuality can dismantle cultural assumptions not only about disabled people but about sex and sexuality more broadly. Taking neoliberalism to task, Rainey-Smithback reveals how crip sex and interabled relationships present powerful opportunities to reconfigure intimacy and reimagine care." --Cynthia Barounis, author of Vulnerable Constitutions: Queerness, Disability, and the Remaking of American Manhood


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780814216033
  • Publisher: Ohio State University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Ohio State University Press
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 454 gr
  • ISBN-10: 081421603X
  • Publisher Date: 30 Jan 2026
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 184
  • Sub Title: Representations of Love, Sex, and Disability


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