Wanting to be important with someone: Exploring the construction of close relationships, sexuality and 'intellectual disability'
Sexuality, relationships and ‘intellectual disability’ are constructed as fundamentally complex. Findings generated reflect causal layered analysis of twenty-six interviews with individuals labelled with ‘intellectual disability’ and reflections on interactions with the community. Assumptions on ‘in...
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Curtin University
2015
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| author | Castell, Emily Louise |
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| description | Sexuality, relationships and ‘intellectual disability’ are constructed as fundamentally complex. Findings generated reflect causal layered analysis of twenty-six interviews with individuals labelled with ‘intellectual disability’ and reflections on interactions with the community. Assumptions on ‘intellectual disability’ and the systems surrounding so-labelled individuals compromise opportunities to engage in close relationships. The endurance of logical-positivism and individualism within dominant western culture is speculated to govern the ways sexuality, close relationships and ‘intellectual disability’ are understood and challenged. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-18532017-02-20T06:39:14Z Wanting to be important with someone: Exploring the construction of close relationships, sexuality and 'intellectual disability' Castell, Emily Louise Sexuality, relationships and ‘intellectual disability’ are constructed as fundamentally complex. Findings generated reflect causal layered analysis of twenty-six interviews with individuals labelled with ‘intellectual disability’ and reflections on interactions with the community. Assumptions on ‘intellectual disability’ and the systems surrounding so-labelled individuals compromise opportunities to engage in close relationships. The endurance of logical-positivism and individualism within dominant western culture is speculated to govern the ways sexuality, close relationships and ‘intellectual disability’ are understood and challenged. 2015 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1853 en Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Castell, Emily Louise Wanting to be important with someone: Exploring the construction of close relationships, sexuality and 'intellectual disability' |
| title | Wanting to be important with someone: Exploring the construction of close relationships, sexuality and 'intellectual disability' |
| title_full | Wanting to be important with someone: Exploring the construction of close relationships, sexuality and 'intellectual disability' |
| title_fullStr | Wanting to be important with someone: Exploring the construction of close relationships, sexuality and 'intellectual disability' |
| title_full_unstemmed | Wanting to be important with someone: Exploring the construction of close relationships, sexuality and 'intellectual disability' |
| title_short | Wanting to be important with someone: Exploring the construction of close relationships, sexuality and 'intellectual disability' |
| title_sort | wanting to be important with someone: exploring the construction of close relationships, sexuality and 'intellectual disability' |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1853 |