Drawing on her own experiences with late-onset disability and its impact on her sex life, along with her expertise as a cultural critic, Jane Gallop explores how disability and aging work to undermine one's sense of self. She challenges common conceptions that equate the decline of bodily potential and ability with a permanent and irretrievable loss, arguing that such a loss can be both temporary and positively transformative. With Sexuality, Disability, and Aging, Gallop explores and celebrates how sexuality transforms and becomes more queer in the lives of the no longer young and the no longer able while at the same time demonstrating how disability can generate new forms of sexual fantasy and erotic possibility.
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Theoretical Underpinnings
- Crip Theory
- Aging and Queer Temporality
- Aging and the Phallus
- The Queer Phallus
- Anecdotal Theory
- 1. High Heels and Wheelchairs
- The Story
- The Ending
- City Sidewalks
- Feminism and High Heels
- Gender and Disability
- The Phallus in the Wheelchair
- The Ending (Reprise)
- 2. Post-prostrate Sex
- The Story
- Strange Temporalities
- Pre-cum and the Coital Imperative
- Resisting the Coital Imperative
- Longitudinal Sexuality
- Conclusion
- The Phallus and Its Temporalities
- Longitudinal Identities
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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