SEXING DISABILITY. Prospettive di genere, embodiment sessuale e progetto sul corpo nelle disabilità fisiche

From a sociological perspective and using a narrative methodology applied to interviews with physically disabled subjects, this research presents a discursive and biographical inquiry of disability, pointing out – in particular – gender perspectives and social construction of sexual actions. Thus, not only narratives of actual disabled subjects will be analyzed, but also body projects, identities and sexual embodiments of those able subjects who engage in disability on different levels: identification, sexual desire, body project, sexual embodiment. Sexuality and gender identity are considered crucial to this analysis as they are conceived as social activities in which the body is the main agent and due to their constitutive role in subjectivation processes.