@inbook{eee1078c7dd24fb7b1cebc1581b7682d,
title = "Breaking the silence: Disability and sexuality in contemporary Bulgaria",
abstract = "This paper explores the silence surrounding disabled people{\textquoteright}s sexuality in contemporary, postsocialist Bulgaria. The related desexualisation of disabled people is regarded as an instance of disablism that is sustained through medicalisation, patriarchal stereotypes and negative understandings of the bodily difference of {\textquoteleft}impairment{\textquoteright}. The analysis draws on disability studies and phenomenology in order to elicit the workings of these mechanisms in everyday discourse as represented by an autobiographical essay and an internet discussion. A number of strategies for challenging disablist desexualisation are also highlighted whose point of departure is breaking the silence on the topic of disabled people{\textquoteright}s sexuality.",
author = "T. Mladenov",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.4324/9781315866932",
language = "English",
isbn = " 9780415610964",
series = "BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies",
publisher = "Routledge Taylor \& Francis Group",
number = "94",
pages = "141--164",
editor = "Michael Rasell and \{ Iarskaia-Smirnova\}, Elena",
booktitle = "Disability in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union",
address = "United Kingdom",
}