Explores the sexuality and reproduction rights of individuals with intellectual disabilities in the US --individuals with intellectual disabilities have been historically subjected to various efforts to restrict their sexual expression and reproductive capabilities including forced sterilization, invasive birth control methods, and sex segregated living arrangements--looks at legal cases, sex education material, journalistic accounts, and cultural representations since the 1970s to the present to determine to what extent past eugenic perceptions of sexuality influence contemporary management and governance of an individual's sexual rights --advocates for the potentiality of individuals with intellectual disabilities to lead sexually fulfilling lives
Table of Contents:
Contents
Preface: Violations of Sexual Life
Introduction: Sexual Ableism Exposed
1. Questions of Consent: Rethinking Competence and Sexual Abuse
2. Pleasure Principles: From Harm Reduction to Diversity in Sex Education
3. Sex Can Wait, Masturbate: The Politics of Masturbation Training
4. Reproductive Intrusions: The Fight against Forced Sterilization
5. Not Just an Able-Bodied Privilege: Toward an Ethics of Parenting
6. Screening Sexuality: Media Representations of Intellectual Disability
7. Smashing Disability: Sexual Transgression and the Lady Boys of Bangkok
Conclusion: Dismantling Ableist Assumptions
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the Author :
Michael Gill is assistant professor of gender, women's, and sexuality studies at Grinnell College.
Review :
"Already Doing It is consistent and radical in its insistence on pleasure as a gauge for thinking about discourses of intellectual disability. It is an indispensable contribution to the burgeoning scholarship on sex and disability."-Robert McRuer, author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
"This book will provide new and interesting ideas for many people (LGBT or not) working at all levels of primary and secondary school, whether as teachers or otherwise...If lessons and ideas from this book were fully taken on board, I could see a real difference being made to the way sexuality is viewed in school."-Sex Education
"An accessible and interesting read."-CHOICE
"Michael Gill’s Already Doing It: Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency is an important book at an important time in the history of sexuality and people with intellectual disability."-PsycCritiques
"Provocative and thought provoking, the text, through specific examples, urges the reader to examine actual individuals and their varied sexual expression in a new light. A successful argument for rights of the intellectually disabled."-Lavender Magazine
"A powerful call for the necessity of supporting sexual citizenship for persons with disability through liberatory action efforts that challenge sexual ableism."-H-Net
