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A Very Public Private Matter: A Case Study of the Post-Institutional Control of Disabled Sexuality

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dc.contributor.authorGarcía-Santesmases Fernández, Andrea
dc.contributor.authorBahner, Julia
dc.contributor.authorSanmiquel Molinero, Laura
dc.contributor.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8526-3659
dc.contributor.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7879-7847
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-11T13:07:50Z
dc.date.available2025-02-11T13:07:50Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.descriptionThe registered version of this article, first published in “Sex Res Soc Policy (2024)", is available online at the publisher's website: Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-024-00986-5 La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en “Sex Res Soc Policy (2024)", está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-024-00986-5
dc.description.abstractIntroduction This article explores how sexuality is conceptualised and managed in a Spanish residential care unit for recently injured people. The institution operates under the banner of independent living, a key belief of the international disabled people’s movement, which champions self-determination, autonomy, and control over their support. Methods A focused ethnography was conducted between September 2021 and February 2022, with semi-structured interviews and participant observations with the residential care unit’s service users (n = 13), staff (n = 12), and managers (n = 7). Results Managers and staff organise the support in ways that prevent service users’ autonomy, privacy, and intimacy, contrary to the independent living philosophy. Service users’ behaviour, relationships, and whereabouts are constantly monitored and controlled in a gendered, desexualising manner. When sexuality is discussed, it often concerns sexual assistance—a service offered by some organisations in Spain—effectively redirecting attention to a therapeutic approach and shifting focus away from institutional responsibilities towards an individual (male) issue. Conclusions Critical disability studies and organisational theory inform an analysis that finds the institutional policy for managing sexuality is ‘strategic ignorance’: sexuality is simultaneously silenced and controlled in the name of professionalism. This post-institutional way of organising disability services is highly gendered and desexualising, resulting in ‘anti-independence’. Policy Implications Residential care managers and staff should be trained to work ethically and professionally with sexual rights. Training should be based on the independent living philosophy, which empowers disabled people to take control over their lives.en
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dc.identifier.citationGarcía-Santesmases, A., Bahner, J. & Sanmiquel-Molinero, L. A Very Public Private Matter: A Case Study of the Post-Institutional Control of Disabled Sexuality. Sex Res Soc Policy (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-024-00986-5
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-024-00986-5
dc.identifier.issn1868-9884 | eISSN 1553-6610
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/25899
dc.journal.titleSexuality Research and Social Policy
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.centerFacultades y escuelas::Facultad de Derecho
dc.relation.departmentTrabajo Social
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject56 Ciencias Jurídicas y Derecho
dc.subject.keywordspeople with disabilitiesen
dc.subject.keywordsgenderen
dc.subject.keywordssexual rightsen
dc.subject.keywordssexual assistanceen
dc.subject.keywordsdisability servicesen
dc.subject.keywordsIndependent livingen
dc.subject.keywordsresidential careen
dc.titleA Very Public Private Matter: A Case Study of the Post-Institutional Control of Disabled Sexualityen
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