How young people with disabilities conceptualize the body, sex and marriage in urban india: Four case studies
How young people with disabilities conceptualize the body, sex and marriage in urban india: Four case studies
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DOI：
10.1007/s11195-007-9045-9
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发表时间：
2007-09-01
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1.5
通讯作者：
Addlakha, Renu
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作者：
Addlakha, Renu
历史上，印度和世界其他地方一样，对残疾人有着根深蒂固的文化反感。他们被描绘成医学上的畸形，无助的受害者，以及家庭和社会的终身负担。虽然今天在印度普遍认识到有必要增加残疾人的教育和就业机会，以促进经济自力更生和独立生活，但他们的性需要、梦想和愿望或多或少是看不见的。性权利和生殖权利被认为与残疾人无关。本文采用定性数据，通过对德里大学生的四个案例研究，探讨了印度城市青年的性别认同观念。在有视觉和局部运动障碍的年轻男女的性观念中，性别成为一个关键的分析范畴。这篇论文并没有声称抓住了印度残疾性行为的复杂现实，但是强调了迄今为止在很大程度上尚未得到研究的领域中的一些关键问题。但作者的分析具有附加价值，因为她本人视力不佳；从而赋予了研究一个反思性的角度。
Historically in India as elsewhere in the world, there has been a deep-rooted cultural antipathy to persons with disabilities. They have been portrayed as medical anomalies, helpless victims and a lifelong burden for family and society. While today there is a general recognition in India of the need to enhance educational and employment opportunities for persons with disabilities in order to promote economic self-reliance and independent living, their sexual needs, dreams and aspirations are more or less invisible. Sexual and reproductive rights are considered irrelevant for persons with disabilities. Using qualitative data, this paper discusses notions of sexual identity among urban Indian youth through four case studies of college students in Delhi. Gender emerges as a key analytical category in perceptions of sexuality among young men and women with visual and loco-motor disabilities. The paper does not claim to capture the complex reality of disabled sexuality in India, but highlights some key issues in a hitherto largely under-research domain. But the author's analysis carries added value, since she herself has low vision; thus conferring a reflexive angle to the research.