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- Bahner, Julia, et al.
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Access to sexuality : Disabled people's experiences of multiple barriers
- 2021
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Ingår i: Accessibility Denied : Understanding Inaccessibility and Everyday Resistance to Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities - Understanding Inaccessibility and Everyday Resistance to Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities. - 9781003120452 ; , s. 123-139
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter concerns disabled people’s experiences of barriers to accessing sexuality. It draws on an analysis of materials produced in ten projects by civil society organisations, including self-advocacy organisations, sexual rights organisations and organisations working on behalf of disabled people. These materials comprise books, handbooks, videos, websites and other online materials, and are based on the lived experiences of people with intellectual disability and mobility impairments. The projects mainly focus on providing information about sexuality and relationships, sexual and gender identity issues, and experiences of disability services in relation to sexuality. The analysis identifies the following types of sexual access barriers: (1) inadequate information, (2) psycho-emotional barriers, (3) relational barriers, (4) support-related barriers, and (5) policy barriers. These barriers to sexual access are often related to general disabling barriers and ableist norms. This intersection of barriers at personal, social, organisational and policy levels greatly impacts on disabled people’s opportunities in their sexual lives specifically, and as equal citizens generally.
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- Bahner, Julia, et al.
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Alison Kafer: Med blicken på funktionsmaktordningen
- 2022
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Ingår i: Teorier för socialt arbete : Del 2, Normalitet, förkroppsligad erfarenhet och motstånd - Del 2, Normalitet, förkroppsligad erfarenhet och motstånd. - 9789151107639 ; , s. 143-157
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- Bahner, Julia, et al.
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"Att leva som andra" – även när det gäller sexualitet?
- 2018
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Ingår i: Forskning om personlig assistans : en antologi - en antologi. - 9789163999710 ; , s. 85-96
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Ett kapitel baserat på forskning om personlig assistans och rätten för en människamed normbrytande funktion att utveckla en egen sexualitet, med diskussion om hur dessa svenska förhållanden förhåller sig till liknande frågor i andra länder.
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- Bahner, Julia
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Cripping sex education: lessons learned from a programme aimed at young people with mobility impairments
- 2018
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Ingår i: Sex Education-Sexuality Society and Learning. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1468-1811 .- 1472-0825. ; 18:6, s. 640-654
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper analyses sexuality and relationship education (SRE) in a Swedish college programme aimed at young people with mobility impairments. Interviews and focus groups were conducted to explore students' experiences of the structure, content and usefulness of SRE, and college personnel's SRE practices. Results show that, although many of the issues covered are pertinent for all young people, being disabled raises additional concerns: for example how to handle de-sexualising attitudes, possible sexual practices, and how reliance on assistance impacts upon privacy. Crip theory is used as an analytical framework to identify, challenge and politicise sexual norms and practices. Students' experiences of living in a disablist, heteronormative society can be used as resources for developing cripistemologies, which challenge the private/public binary that often de-legitimises learners' experiences and separates them from teachers' proper' knowledge production. Crip SRE would likely hold benefits for non-disabled pupils as well, through its use of more inclusive pedagogy and in work to expand sexual possibilities. Crip SRE has the potential to disrupt taken-for-granted dis/ability and sexuality divides as well as to politicise issues that many young people presently experience as personal shortcomings'.
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- Bahner, Julia
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Disabiliy, sexuality and personal assistance – what is quality of life?
- 2010
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Ingår i: Disability Studies Conference ‘Diversity in Quality of Life’ in Amsterdam, 2-4 dec 2010.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aim. The aim of this study was to analyze the living conditions of physically disabled people from the viewpoint of sexuality issues with regards to personal assistance services, identity and attitudes in society on disability and sexuality. Methods. Interviews were conducted with ten physically disabled people, a personal assistant and a physically disabled person working with a project on disability, sexuality and personal assistance issues in the Federation of Young Disabled. In addition, Internet observations were conducted in the forum of a Swedish disability site. The data has been analyzed using grounded theory. Findings. Not much research is done on sexuality issues for physically disabled people. Even though we live in a society where sexuality takes up a lot of space in the media, the culture and is acknowledged to be of great importance for every person’s wellbeing, the sexuality of disabled people is often not recognized and discussed. We have little knowledge of how these attitudes influence physically disabled people and their forming of a desired identity and sexuality. Disability and sexuality is explained in terms of being socially constructed. Using the social model of disability and the theory of sexual scripting (Simon & Gagnon 1984), the results show that disabled people’s sexuality can be surrounded by barriers of societal and professional taboos and judgmental attitudes. This makes the experience of identity, personal assistance and sexuality ambivalent for the individual. Conclusions. Forming a desired sexuality and identity can be harder for physically disabled people in terms of fighting against judgmental attitudes about both disability, personal assistance and sexuality, when struggling for recognition as a sexual being and forming a sexuality which includes the desired components of assistance or otherwise. From a human rights and sexual health rights perspective it’s interesting to discuss whether or not disabled people have the same rights to their sexuality as non disabled people and what could count as quality of life in the area of sexuality in this context.
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- Bahner, Julia
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Disabled sexuality? Exploring sexuality issues for physically disabled users of personal assistance services
- 2011
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Ingår i: Nordic Network on Disability Research: 11th research conference, Reykjavik, Iceland, 26-26 man 2011.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aim. The aim was to analyze the living conditions of physically disabled people from the viewpoint of sexuality issues with regards to personal assistance services, identity and attitudes in society on disability and sexuality. The study is part of a work in progress in the PhD programme, where personal assistants’ and their supervisors’ views on these issues will be studied. Methods. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten physically disabled people. In addition, Internet observations were conducted in the forum of a Swedish disability site. The data has been analyzed using grounded theory. Findings. Disability and sexuality is explained in terms of being socially constructed. Using the social model of disability and the theory of sexual scripting (Simon & Gagnon 1984), the results show that disabled people’s sexuality and use of personal assistance is often surrounded by barriers of societal and professional taboos and judgmental attitudes. This makes the experience of identity, personal assistance and sexuality ambivalent for the individual. Conclusions. Forming a desired sexuality and identity can be harder for physically disabled people in terms of fighting against judgmental attitudes about disability, personal assistance and sexuality. Due to the feelings of ambivalence concerning the experiences of sexuality, identity and personal assistance, physically disabled people are often struggling for recognition to be seen as sexual beings and to be able to form a sexuality which includes the desired components of assistance or otherwise. From a human rights and sexual health rights perspective it’s interesting to discuss whether or not disabled people have the same rights to their sexuality as non disabled people.
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- Bahner, Julia
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Legal Rights or Simply Wishes? The Struggle for Sexual Recognition of People with Physical Disabilities Using Personal Assistance in Sweden
- 2012
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Ingår i: Sexuality and Disability. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0146-1044 .- 1573-6717. ; 30:3, s. 337-356
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this study is to explore the lived experience of sexuality for people with physical disabilities using formal personal assistance services in Sweden, from their own perspective. This is analyzed in relation to the aims of personal assistance services according to Swedish law, which states that they should be framed in terms of autonomy, integrity and self-determination making it possible to live a good life, on the same terms as non-disabled people. Data were collected through face-to-face interviews with ten assistance users and through observations on an online discussion forum for people with disabilities. The main findings of the study concern participants’ struggle to be recognized as sexual beings in order to be able to live as desired, as well as the different strategies needed to overcome obstacles in sexual expression. Results indicate the need to train personal assistants about handling assistance users’ sexuality and sexual situations.
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