School Of Social SciencesDisability and SexualityWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 102848.1
Discipline: CARE FOR THE DISABLED
Student Contribution Band: 4
Level: 3
Credit Points: 10
About this Unit
This unit introduces students to the mutual fields of sexuality studies and disability studies by employing the critical lenses of queer, disability, and feminist theory to interrogate the privileging and ownership by mainstream culture of sex. By illuminating how people with physical, emotional, and cognitive disabilities experience romance, love, emotional intimacy and physical connection, students will explore how insufficient sexuality supports create diminished agency, excessive vulnerability, lack of access and “otherness” for disabled people. Students will ground their critical thinking by examining how they have constructed sexuality and disability norms based on their values, beliefs and views of these two intersecting and often taboo topics. Students will be encouraged to appreciate the importance of sexuality in the lives of people with disabilities and view the expression of our sexuality, sexuality agency, and access to sexual health as a basic human right.
Courses| 1667.4 | Bachelor of Social Science | CURRENT |
| 1733.1 | Bachelor of Social Science (Advanced) | CURRENT |
| 1807.2 | Bachelor of International Studies/Bachelor of Social Science | CURRENT |
| 1808.3 | Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Social Science | CURRENT |
| 6023.2 | Diploma in Social Science/Bachelor of Social Science | CONTINUING |
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