Sarah Rainey-Smithback

Crip Love Onscreen

Representations of Love, Sex, and Disability

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Produktbeschreibung

Crip Love Onscreen: Representations of Love, Sex, and Disability examines how disabled people's sexual lives--including pleasure/sex, love, pregnancy, and sexual violence--are represented in popular film and television. Analyzing a variety of films and TV shows from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, Crip Love Onscreen establishes a pattern in disability representation that ignores or distorts many of the realities of crip sexuality. These patterns of sexual representation tend to uphold compulsory able-bodiedness, heteronormativity, and privacy norms--what Rainey-Smithback terms "neoliberal love values," or standards that celebrate normative forms of sexual desire, bodies, and intimacy practices. As disability representation increases, though, new possibilities are emerging. Crip Love Onscreen also draws attention to the exceptional through a close reading of cinematic narratives (such as Me Before You, 50 First Dates, The Little Mermaid, Juno, and more) that push against neoliberal, heteronormative, and ableist values. Drawing on the work of queer/crip scholars and activists, Rainey-Smithback uncovers glimpses of what Tobin Siebers calls a "sexual culture for disabled people"--a space and way of being that expands sexual access and sexual experience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ohio State University Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780814216033
• ISBN-10: 081421603X
• Artikelnr.: 75038295

Autorenporträt

Sarah Rainey-Smithback is Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Bowling Green State University. She is the author of Love, Sex, and Disability: The Pleasures of Care.