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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"sexuality and disability"”.
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Identity safety cues in context: Contemporary perspectives on gender, sexuality, and disability disparities
My collaborators and I expand knowledge on how identity safety cues can counter social identity threats across 10 studies and a theory article (total N = 4257). We introduce and test a novel identity safety cue and two novel mechanisms that help explain why some identity safety cues are effective, …
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Reading the Superhuman, Embodiments of Multiplicity in Marvel Comics
The goal of this project is to identify, analyze and historicize the operation of embodied multiplicities within superhero comics from the postwar era using the example of comics produced by the Marvel group between 1961 and 2005. This project argues that the superheroes created during this era …
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Speaking in Wild Tongues: The Borderlands of Eudora Welty and Alice Walker
In Borderlands/La Frontera Gloria Anzaldúa describes her experience undergoing a dental procedure as a battle between her wild tongue and the dentist. Beginning with a discussion of Anzaldúa’s concept of the wild tongue, this project asks how writers across the US South depict unruly tongues and …
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Rights versus Risks: The Tension in Sexual Education for Learners with Intellectual Disability
… society has a high prevalence of sexual abuse and violence, and those with intellectual disability (ID) are more likely to be victimized. Therefore, there is a need for sexual education programmes that cater to learners with ID. In South Africa, national policy overlooks individuals with …
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Let's talk about sex : exploring sex and sexuality following Spinal Cord Injury
… complete paralysis. Life is completely changed and an individual's reality is instantly disrupted. Persons who acquire a spinal cord injury experience massive changes in their lives as this impairment impacts their physical, psychological, social, emotional and economic well-being. Moreover, …
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"""Reverse pictures"": twentieth-century American portraiture and the subversion of the medico-photographic body"
… body through the reappropriation, manipulation, and parody of corporeal stereotypes. It contains a series of case studies which explore the work of Marsden Hartley, Paul Cadmus, Jared French, George Platt Lynes, and Diane Arbus. Although these artists were not known for creating self-consciously …
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Bereavement and Disability: Implications for the Therapeutic Encounter
… an overview, a research study, a client study and a critical literature review. Overview: The first part introduces the portfolio and the overarching themes of bereavement and of disability. It introduces the researcher and the motivation behind this portfolio. Research Study: This study …
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Access to Health Care at the Margins: Implications for Older Sexual Minority Women with Disabilities
… are called to address barriers to human growth and development through advocacy (ACA, 2014), such as those posed by inequitable health care access for socially disadvantaged groups (CDC, 2013; IOM, 2011). Health care contributes to positive health outcomes (Healthy People 2020) and is therefore …
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Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities Engaging in Peer-to-Peer Safety and Sexuality Training: A Case Study
… disabilities (Petersilia, 2001; Sobsey, 1994) and individuals with other types of disabilities (Harrel & Rand, 2010). In 2008, approximately 34,000 individuals with cognitive impairments in the U.S. were victims of non-fatal violent crime, with approximately 1,500 incidents classified as rape …