Hi
Well I would say yes, especially for women with disabilities. The very
process of intenalisation is aimed at desexualizing people who do not fit
the cultural mode of physically attractive bodies.
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| Subject: desexualisation
| Date: Thursday, April 08, 1999 6:58 PM
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| I have just joined your list so hi!
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| I am interested in the insights that disability studies can bring to
| liberation theory. I come from another field sometimes known as
| ecological feminism. Today I am thinking about the desexualisation of
| disabled people. What parallels can be drawn between this and the
| desexualisation of the aged? Is the desexualisation of disabled
| people an aspect of the' aesthetic oppression' of people with
| disabilities? Sex is commonly represented using stereotypically,
| 'classically attractive' bodies. So is the desexualisation of
| disabled people linked to the marking out of 'visibly disabled'
| bodies as not conforming to hegemonic aesthetic standards? Is
| oppression via aesthetics away into coalition politics between
| disability~gender~'race'~age etc The beauty myth absorbs many....
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| any thoughts appreciated....
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| ~Richard Twine
| dept. of sociology
| manchester met. uni
| Ecofeminism on the Web:
| http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/8385/ecofemlinks.html
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