‘No sex please!’ We have been labelled intellectually disabled
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19515505 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charmaine Agius Ferrante (0000-0003-4166-5116, Northumbria University, corresponding author), Eileen Oak (0000-0003-2434-1566, Northumbria University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 383-397 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sex Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-1811 • E-ISSN: 1472-0825 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14681811.2020.1719479 |
| OpenAlex | W3005213741 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 40 |
This article aims to explore the sexual agency of young people over age 16 labelled as having an intellectual disability. We argue that 30 years of inclusive education have failed to address the question of sexuality education and agency for individuals with an intellectual disability. Contextualising the failure of contemporary sexuality education within schools, and drawing on concepts of subjectivity, the article deconstructs the presumed normalcy of able-bodied sexuality to highlight the inappropriateness of sex education for young people labelled with an intellectual disability. Using Crip theory, it illustrates how the intersectionality between ‘abled-bodied-ness’ and’ ‘heteronormativity’ converges to lead to the invisibility of individuals with intellectual disability, therefore reinforcing social exclusion from sex and sexuality as a key aspect of citizenship, specifically, the right to a safe and pleasurable sex life. An argument is made for a critical, andragogical approach to sexuality education offering a new paradigm for developing sexuality education to facilitate the sexual agency of individuals with intellectual disability
Citizenship · Epistemology · Heteronormativity · Human sexuality · Intellectual disability · Invisibility · Political science · Politics · Sex education · Sexuality education · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Disability Rights and Representation · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Medicine · Psychology
World Trade Report 2006
Tools of Exclusion
Disability and poverty
Citizenship and Social Class
Crip theory
Semi-Citizenship in Democratic Politics
Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited
Sexuality education for students with intellectual disabilities, a critical pedagogical approach
Already doing it
Ethical Erotics
Archaeology of Knowledge
Power, Ideology and Structure
Reconstructing the Sexuality of Men with Learning Disabilities
Crip theory and the disabled identity
The silence is roaring’
Citizenship
Trapped behind the glass
Disabled people's attitudes toward other impairment groups
Facilitated communication, Anna Stubblefield and disability studies
Identifying Effective Methods for Teaching Sex Education to Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities
Introduction
A Test of Major Assumptions About Behavior Change
Codes, modalities, and the process of cultural reproduction
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |