Loneliness and Its Opposite: Sex, Disability, and the Ethics of Engagement

by Jens Rydstrom and Don Kulick

Book Overview

Few people these days would oppose making the public realm of space, social services and jobs accessible to women and men with disabilities. But what about access to the private realm of desire and sexuality? How can one also facilitate access to that, in ways that respect the integrity of disabled adults, and also of those people who work with and care for them?

Loneliness and Its Opposite documents how two countries generally imagined...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822358336
• ISBN13: 9780822358336
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"