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Jane Gallop explores how disability and aging are commonly understood to undermine one's sense of self and challenges narratives that register the decline of bodily potential and ability as nothing but an experience of loss.
List of contents
Acknowledgments 1x
Introduction: Theoretical Underpinnings 1
Crip Theory 1
Aging and Queer Temporality 5
Aging and the Phallus 13
The Queer Phallus 20
Anecdotal Theory 25
1. High Heels and Wheelchairs 31
The Story 31
The Ending 36
City Sidewalks 40
Feminism and High Heels 46
Gender and Disability 52
The Phallus in the Wheelchair 58
The Ending (Reprise) 64
2. Post-prostate Sex 67
The Story 67
Strange Temporalities 74
Pre-cum and the Coital Imperative 81
Resisting the Coital Imperative 92
Longitudinal Sexuality 95
Conclusion 103
The Phallus and Its Temporalities 103
Longitudinal Identities 107
Notes 113
Bibliography 127
Index 133
About the author
Jane Gallop
Summary
Jane Gallop explores how disability and aging are commonly understood to undermine one's sense of self and challenges narratives that register the decline of bodily potential and ability as nothing but an experience of loss.
