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Reflections on the Process of Researching Disabled People's Sexual Lives

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  • Kirsty Liddiard

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This article offers a reflexive account of the processes, politics, problems, practicalities and pleasures of storying disabled people's sexual lives for the purposes of sociological research. Drawing upon a doctoral study which explored disabled people's lived experiences of sex, intimacy and sexuality through their own sexual stories, the author considers how her identity, subjectivity and embodiment – in this case, a white, British, young, heterosexual, disabled, cisgendered woman with congenital and (dependent upon the context) visible impairment – was interwoven within and through the research methodology; most explicitly, as an interlocutor and co-constructor of informants’ sexual stories. Given the paucity of reflexive research in this area, a number of reflexive dilemmas are identified which make important methodological contributions to qualitative sociology, disability studies scholarship and research, and current knowledges of the emotional work of qualitative researchers (Dickinson-Smith et al. 2009).

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  • Kirsty Liddiard, 2013. "Reflections on the Process of Researching Disabled People's Sexual Lives," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 18(3), pages 105-117, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:18:y:2013:i:3:p:105-117
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.3116
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