"Mom is down": the sexuality of people with disabilities within discourse of Época magazine

Authors

  • Ana Flávia Teodoro de Mendonça Oliveira Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG)
  • Clarissa Martins de Araújo Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/1984686X24946

Keywords:

Disability, Cultural representation, Stereotype

Abstract

This article analyzes a media cultural artifact that produces narratives about people with disabilities and their sexuality, as noticed in the report Mom is Down, published by Época magazine. Based on post-structuralist perspective of Cultural Studies and on Foucault's approach, the goal of this paper is to analyze the cultural representation of disability and also to identify stereotypes and existing essentializations in the discourse about people with Down. The results indicate that the narratives about disability are linked with a conceptual apparatus, coming from a medical knowledge, providing a sense of disability closely related to the biological question. Thus, the causes, the diagnosis and the possible treatments offered to these subjects are presented. In this game of forces, there are narratives in which the sexuality concept is not only connected with biological aspects, but also with the cultural representation that people with disabilities can enjoy their sexuality, a life together and the experience of motherhood.

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Author Biographies

Ana Flávia Teodoro de Mendonça Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG)

Doutora em Educação e professora adjunta II da faculdade de Educação da Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG).

Clarissa Martins de Araújo, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Doutora em Sciences de Leducation - Universite de Toulouse II (Le Mirail) (2000). Atualmente é professora adjunto do Departamento de Psicologia e Orientação Educacionais e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação, da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Pesquisadora do Núcleo de Formação de Professores e Prática Pedagógica, com ênfase em estudos sobre a Educação Inclusiva e Ensino de Artes. Está vinculada ao Grupo Formação de Professor e Profissionalização Docente, DGP/CNPq e ao Grupo de Pesquisa Formação de Professores Arte e Inclusão-GEFAI, DGP/CNP

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Published

2018-03-11

How to Cite

Oliveira, A. F. T. de M., & Araújo, C. M. de. (2018). "Mom is down": the sexuality of people with disabilities within discourse of Época magazine. Special Education Magazine, 31(60), 215–228. https://doi.org/10.5902/1984686X24946

Issue

Revista Educação Especial, v. 31, n. 60, jan./mar. 2018

Section

Continuous Demand

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