2121 - Disability, Sex, and Gender (Co-sponsored with the Section on the Sociology of Sex and Gender)

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

Papers in this session will explore the connections between disability, sex, and gender. Disability is a social category of life that encompasses a wide range of physical, mental, and behavioral differences. Papers may address intersectional approaches to sex, gender, and disability; gendered experiences or definitions of disability; disability and gender as axes of structural inequality or marginalization; gendered differences in access, healthcare, services, and resources for disabled people; and other topics that consider the connections between disability, sex, and gender.

Sub Unit

• Section on Disability in Society / Disability, Sex, and Gender (Cosponsored with Section on the Sociology of Sex and Gender)

Session Organizer

• Laura Mauldin, University of Connecticut

Presider

• Victoria L. Pitts-Taylor, Wesleyan University

Individual Presentations

• A Model Who Looks Like Me: Representing Disability in the Fashion Industry - David Nicholas Pettinicchio, University of Toronto; Jordan Foster, University of Toronto

• Being kept out of sexual fields: The intimate lives of adults with intellectual disabilities - Alan Santinele Martino, McMaster University

• Early Life, Gender Performance, and Sexuality in Young Adults with Chronic Health Conditions - Hillary Steinberg, CU Boulder; Candace Michele Evans, University of Colorado Boulder