Historicising ‘Compulsory Able‐bodiedness’: The History of Sexology meets Queer Disability Studies

Leng, Kirsten

doi:10.1111/1468-0424.12428

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“…Queer and disability theories, working together, react to and reject the totalizing normative logos by which heterosexuality and able‐bodiedness are understood as de facto modes of being. Leng (2019) observes that it is the normative coherence of heterosexuality and able‐bodiedness (presumed inextricable) that traces the very parameters of desirability; put simply, the anticipation of heteronormative able‐bodiedness demands that those bodies who do not conform are seen as interlopers on heteronormative sexual economies. McRuer (2006) further clarifies this contingency: “Able‐bodied identity and heterosexual identity are linked in their mutual impossibility and in their mutual incomprehensibility—they are incomprehensible in that each is an identity that is simultaneously the ground on which all identities supposedly rest and an impressive achievement that is always deferred and thus never really guaranteed” (p. 9).…”

Section: Queering Disability/cripping Queernessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Eighteenth‐century queer studies, revisited

Chow

2021

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This review essays opens with concerns over “crisis” that have spurred widespread panic about the state and future of the humanities. Crisis, I suggest, is the rallying call for new directions in and reinvention of 18th‐century queer studies. By advocating for recuperative histories wherein crisis is a motivational force that pushes 18th‐century queer studies to be further self‐reflexive and intersectional, I examine three potent trends and their portents for 18th‐century studies: masculinity studies, the nexus of queer and disability studies, and trans studies. I close with a continued call for examinations of queerness and race as they might enlighten the long 18th century. This article ultimately surveys current terrains of 18th‐century queer studies and its commitments to evolve inclusively, dynamically, and unapologetically.

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Section: Queering Disability/cripping Queernessmentioning

confidence: 99%