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Historicising ‘Compulsory Able-bodiedness’: The History of Sexology meets Queer Disability Studies (2019)

Leng, Kirsten (Author)

Gender and History
Volume: 31
Issue: 2
Pages: 319-333
Publication date: 2019
Language: English

DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12428

URI: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-0424.12428

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This paper engages Laura Doan's call in Disturbing Practices (2013) for greater exchange between history and queer studies by considering what Queer Disability Studies might have to offer the history of sexology. Specifically, it examines the long-overlooked writings of early-twentieth-century German women sexologists through the lens of disability. Approaching sexology, in this case women's sexology, with the insights of Queer Disability Studies can help illuminate an arguably self-evident yet unremarked consequence of sexologists’ stress upon health and naturalness as baseline evaluative criteria for desirable sexual subjects. Namely: Queer Disability Studies helps expose the degree to which even progressive, feminist sexology helped establish the able-bodied and able-minded subject as the candidate for sexual liberation, expanded sexual freedoms and sexual citizenship. The substance of this paper explores insights from Queer Disability Studies scholarship and closely examines the ideas of five women sexologists Helene Stöcker, Grete Meisel-Hess, Ruth Bré, Anna Rüling, and Johanna Elberskirchen.

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