Gallop Sexuality, Disability, and Aging

Queer Temporalities of the Phallus
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0269-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 152 Seiten

Jane Gallop explores how disability and aging are commonly understood to undermine one's sense of self and challenges narratives that register the decline of bodily potential and ability as nothing but an experience of loss.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gallop, Jane

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments 1x
Introduction: Theoretical Underpinnings 1
Crip Theory 1
Aging and Queer Temporality 5
Aging and the Phallus 13
The Queer Phallus 20
Anecdotal Theory 25
1. High Heels and Wheelchairs 31
The Story 31
The Ending 36
City Sidewalks 40
Feminism and High Heels 46
Gender and Disability 52
The Phallus in the Wheelchair 58
The Ending (Reprise) 64
2. Post-prostate Sex 67
The Story 67
Strange Temporalities 74
Pre-cum and the Coital Imperative 81
Resisting the Coital Imperative 92
Longitudinal Sexuality 95
Conclusion 103
The Phallus and Its Temporalities 103
Longitudinal Identities 107
Notes 113
Bibliography 127
Index 133

Über Autor(innen)

Jane Gallop is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the author of numerous books, including The Deaths of the Author: Reading and Writing in Time; Living with His Camera; and Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment, all also published by Duke University Press.