Screening Gay Characters with Disabilities

By Petra Anders LGBTQ

Two contemporary films challenge traditional combinations of disability and sexuality in cinema.

The Baroness: Imagining Madness, Marriage, and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Paris

By Jessie Hewitt Modern Europe

The Baroness dramatized the relationship of disability to French citizenship and masculinity in the nineteenth century.

Sexual Deviance and “Mental Defectiveness” in Eugenics Era California

By Jess Whatcott 20th and 21st Century United States, Sexual Violence

The diagnosis of mental defectiveness legitimated the state’s reproductive control of sexually promiscuous and sexually violated girls and women.

CFP: Histories of Disability and Sexuality

By Saniya Ghanoui CFP

How has the relationship between disability and sexuality been conceptualized?