Two contemporary films challenge traditional combinations of disability and sexuality in cinema.
Tag: disability and sexuality
The Baroness: Imagining Madness, Marriage, and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Paris
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
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
How has the relationship between disability and sexuality been conceptualized?
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