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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Rohhss Chapman |
| ISBN: | 9781849052504 1849052506 |
| OCLC Number: | 878224657 |
| Description: | 320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | Part 1. The international perspective -- Introduction to the book: Standing in my shoes -- Stories from around the globe -- Intimacy and oppression: A historical perspective -- Ebba and Jonni: This is our story -- "I would have broken the law several times ..." Reflecting on the Criminal Law Sexual Offenses Act (1993) in the Republic of Ireland -- "Once in six weeks? That's not a relationship": Stories about love, relationships and sex from self-advocates living in Flanders -- The paradox of intimacy in Japan: Shifting objects of affection -- The Maltese odyssey: Issues of sexuality and parenting for people with intellectual disability -- "Molly is just like me": peer education and life stories in sexuality programmes in Australia -- Emerging themes from Part 1 -- Part 2. A UK experience -- Law, policy and diversity: Exploring the gap between rhetoric and real life -- Promoting sexualitues and protecting from abuse -- "Far more people were able to have sex lives": Sexual relationships and reproductive control in learning disbiltiy institututions -- "This is my time, my life, the way I am": Experiences of being transgendered in a rural setting -- Claire's story: Gay women might need a rainbow fairy group -- Good as you 2 (Gay2): A peer support group for intellectually disabled LGBT people -- "I have been blessed to have a very good support worker": Experiences related to ethnicity and diversity -- The final frontier: Young people with learning dificulties and sex education -- "Women like soaps and men like football": The men's room: intellectually disabled men talking about their views on women, relationships and sex -- Intellectually disabled peopole who sell or who are sold for sex in the UK: An exploration -- Working in partnership: The editors' story -- Emerging Themes from Part 2 -- Re-visiting the research questions and recommendations. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Rohhss Chapman, Sue Ledger and Louise Townson, with Daniel Docherty. |
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This important book brings together contributors from across the world to remind us of the desires of, and the restrictions placed upon, the sexual lives of people with the label of intellectual disabilities. Combining an accessible writing style, with shared contributions from activists and academics, this text centralises sex and sexuality at the heart of a politics of intellectual disability. -- Dan Goodley, Professor of Disability Studies and Education, the University of Sheffield, England (The authors) use people's stories and experiences, researching into the thoughts and memories of people who use services as well as the staff who worked with them. This gives us a useful and very readable historical perspective... They repeatedly highlight the issue of protection and safety verses rights to a sex life and how difficult it is to enshrine both in any law...the issues of equality and diversity are naturally included... People's stories from around the world also remind us of the role religion has to play in this, from influencing laws and policy to restrictions in sex education. -- Andrew Holeman, Director of Inspired Services Publishing Ltd * Community Living * Read more...
