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Sex, Identity, Aesthetics: The Work of Tobin Siebers and Disability Studies
The late Tobin Siebers was a pioneer of, and one of the most prominent thinkers in, the field of disability studies. His scholarship on sexual and intimate affiliations, the connections between structural location and coalitional politics, and the creative arts has shaped disability studies and continues to be widely cited.
Sex, Identity, Aesthetics: The Work of Tobin Siebers and Disability Studies uses Siebers’ work as a launchpad for thinking about contemporary disability studies. The editors provide an overview of Siebers’ research to show how it has contributed to humanistic understandings of ability and disability.
The first section of the book explores how disability provides a way for scholars to theorize a wider range of intimacies and relationalities, arguing that disabled people seek sexual access and revolution in ways that transgress heteronormative dictates on sexual propriety.
The second part of the book works outward from Siebers’ writing to look at how disability broadens our concepts of social location and political affiliations. The final section examines how disability challenges traditional notions of artistic beauty and agency.
Rather than simply commemorating the end of a major scholar’s career, this collection shows how Siebers’ foundational work in disability studies remains central to and continues to inspire scholars in the field today.
Sex, Identity, Aesthetics: The Work of Tobin Siebers and Disability Studies uses Siebers’ work as a launchpad for thinking about contemporary disability studies. The editors provide an overview of Siebers’ research to show how it has contributed to humanistic understandings of ability and disability.
The first section of the book explores how disability provides a way for scholars to theorize a wider range of intimacies and relationalities, arguing that disabled people seek sexual access and revolution in ways that transgress heteronormative dictates on sexual propriety.
The second part of the book works outward from Siebers’ writing to look at how disability broadens our concepts of social location and political affiliations. The final section examines how disability challenges traditional notions of artistic beauty and agency.
Rather than simply commemorating the end of a major scholar’s career, this collection shows how Siebers’ foundational work in disability studies remains central to and continues to inspire scholars in the field today.
192 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 12, 2021
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July 15, 2025
Some of the essays in this collection were great and others were not. The section on sex was especially disappointing since it only contained one essay, which was 50% quotes from other people and 50% saying absolutely nothing of interest about those quotes.
MANY sentences could have done with an 'in America' stuck in somewhere to save the rolling eyes of international readers (mine started to hurt after a while).
Mostly useful for its bibliography.
MANY sentences could have done with an 'in America' stuck in somewhere to save the rolling eyes of international readers (mine started to hurt after a while).
Mostly useful for its bibliography.
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