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Reinventing Disability and Sexuality

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  1. Reinventing Disability and Sexuality
  2. Presenters
  3. Sugarloaf Mountain
  4. Scholarly support for this presentation
  5. Scholarly support for this presentation, Con't
  6. Today's discussion points
  7. Categories of literature on disability and sexuality
  8. Functional
  9. Discrimination
  10. Discrimination, con't
  11. Sexual Access
  12. Sexual access, con't
  13. Major dilemmas in current literature
  14. Major dilemmas, 2
  15. Major dilemmas, 3
  16. Verifiable claims
  17. Verifiable claims, con't
  18. Claims that are not verifiable
  19. Claims that are not verifiable, 2
  20. Claims that are not verifiable, 3
  21. Claims that are not verifiable, 4
  22. Result of Vague Thinking
  23. Result of essentialist thinking
  24. Results of essentialist thinking, con't
  25. Myth guides desired
    affirmative and long-term responses
  26. Removes discussion, analysis and promotion of "disability sexuality" from the diversity of sexuality relevant to all people
  27. Removes discussion, con't
  28. Removes discussion, analysis and promotion of "disability sexuality" from the diversity of sexuality theory and research relevant to all people
  29. Definitions
  30. Sexuality
  31. Disability
  32. Explanatory Legitimacy
  33. Description
  34. Typical-Atypical
  35. Explanation
  36. Legitimacy
  37. Disability as diversity
  38. Why does disability belong within a progressive diversity dialog?
  39. Why does disability belong within a progressive diversity dialog?, con't
  40. Diversity history in brief:
    Looking backward
  41. Contribution of nomothetic inquiry 1
  42. Contribution of nomothetic inquiry 2
  43. The normal curve:
    "Normal Man"
  44. Pluralism emerges
  45. Multiculturalism...
  46. Three approaches to multiculturalism
  47. Expansive view...
  48. Looking forward, not backward
  49. Looking forward, not backward - 2
  50. Conceptualizing difference...
  51. Reframe thinking
  52. "Reality" of binaries
  53. Current responses—
    Make atypical people typical
  54. Current responses—
    Make atypical people typical - 2
  55. Our vision for the future-Flatten the Curve
  56. Flattening the curve...
  57. Inclusion
  58. Expansive Universal Ideology (DePoy & Gilson, 2006)
  59. Our vision in action today
  60. 2004 Ad for Colours Wheelchair
    Woman in designer wheelchair
  61. Performing artists - ndaf.org
  62. Becoming Her
  63. Becoming Her - 2
  64. Becoming Her - 3
  65. Becoming Her, Mark O'Brien
  66. Portrait, Mark O'Brien
  67. Mark O'Brien
  68. Contact information
  69. Thank You
    Stephen Gilson (stephen_gilson@umit.maine.edu)
    Elizabeth DePoy (edepoy@maine.edu)

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Sexual Access

The degree to which disabled people have been able to negotiate both logistical and sociocultural factors in their pursuit of satisfying sexual expression (Shuttleworth & Mona, 2002, p. 2).

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