Center for Disability Studies (Web)
Domesticity – “The quality or condition of being domestic;” “Home life or devotion to it;” “Household affairs.” Vital work has been done within disability studies to reimagine sex, sexuality, and disabled bodies and scholars in a number of fields, including for example, feminist and queer theorists and women’s historians, have worked to deconstruct dominant heteronormative notions of domesticity and show the broad force with which domesticity and domestic life get deployed in various cultural and political settings. In this edited collection of new and original scholarship, contributors will focus on the varied “domestic” sites where intimate human relations are formed and maintained. Sites that are at once private and racially, economically, and politically inflected and make up the Continue reading
