Sexual professionalism: for whom? The case of sexual facilitation in Swedish personal assistance services
Bahner, Julia LU
(2015)
In Disability and Society
30(5).
p.788-801
- Abstract
- Sexuality is a taboo subject in disability services, leading to insecurity for both service users and personnel about how to handle upcoming situations. In Sweden, there is also a lack of policy in this area, highlighting the need to study sexuality both as an individual and a political, and in this case also, depoliticized issue. A critical feminist policy analysis reveals that norms around disability, sexuality and professionalism in a particular legal, political and cultural context strongly influence the willingness to recognize disabled people’s sexual rights. The Swedish case indicates a need for increased transnational work to develop ethical, professional and non-discriminatory rights-based approaches to sexual facilitation.
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- Bahner, Julia
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2015-06-25
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
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- Disability and Society
- volume
- 30
- issue
- 5
- pages
- 14 pages
- publisher
- Routledge
- external identifiers
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- scopus:84937425978
- ISSN
- 0968-7599
- DOI
- 10.1080/09687599.2015.1021761
- project
- Sexualitetsfrågor i vardagen med personlig assistans för personer med fysisk rörelsenedsättning
- language
- English
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- yes
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