Corpo e outras (de) limitações sexuais: Uma análise antropológica da revista Sexuality and Disability entre os anos de 1996 e 2006

Abstract

This article aims at describing the emergence of the interface between sexuality and "deficiencies"as both research and intervention problem. We analyze articles from the international magazine Sexuality and Disability, published between 1997 and 2006. Four articulation perspectives have been identified amidst themes addressing different research matters, specific models explaining such "deficiency,"as well as variable positions regarding production, application, and consumption of scientific knowledge. The analysis also points at sexuality as a boundary device, defining the limits between normality and pathology relating to the experience of corporal and psychic/cognitive diversity.