{"product_id":"crip-love-onscreen-representations-of-love-sex-and-disability-paperback","title":"Crip Love Onscreen: Representations of Love, Sex, and Disability - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSarah Rainey-Smithback\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrip Love Onscreen: Representations of Love, Sex, and Disability\u003c\/i\u003e examines how disabled people's sexual lives--including pleasure\/sex, love, pregnancy, and sexual violence--are represented in popular film and television. Analyzing a variety of films and TV shows from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, Sarah Rainey-Smithback traces patterns in disability representation that ignore or distort many of the realities of crip sexuality. These patterns of sexual representation tend to uphold compulsory able-bodiedness, heteronormativity, and privacy norms--what Rainey-Smithback terms \"neoliberal love values,\" or standards that celebrate normative forms of sexual desire, bodies, and intimacy practices. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs disability representation increases, though, new possibilities are emerging. \u003ci\u003eCrip Love Onscreen\u003c\/i\u003e also draws attention to the exceptional through a close reading of screen narratives (such as \u003ci\u003e50 First Dates, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove and Other Drugs, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Horror Story: Freak Show, \u003c\/i\u003eand more) that push against neoliberal, heteronormative, and ableist values. Drawing on the work of queer\/crip scholars and activists, Rainey-Smithback uncovers glimpses of what Tobin Siebers calls a \"sexual culture for disabled people\"--a space and way of being that expands sexual access and sexual experience.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah Rainey-Smithback is Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Bowling Green State University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eLove, Sex, and Disability: The Pleasures of Care.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 174\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 30, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45893739020485,"sku":"9780814259672","price":69.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/ogbImQc4M09780814259672.webp?v=1771935350","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/crip-love-onscreen-representations-of-love-sex-and-disability-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}