{"product_id":"crip-love-onscreen-sarah-rainey-smithback-9780814216033","title":"Crip Love Onscreen: Representations of Love, Sex, and Disability","description":"\u003ci\u003eCrip Love Onscreen: Representations of Love, Sex, and Disability\u003c\/i\u003e examines how disabled people's sexual lives--including pleasure\/sex, love, pregnancy, and sexual violence--are represented in popular film and television. Analyzing a variety of films and TV shows from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, Sarah Rainey-Smithback traces patterns in disability representation that ignore or distort many of the realities of crip sexuality. These patterns of sexual representation tend to uphold compulsory able-bodiedness, heteronormativity, and privacy norms--what Rainey-Smithback terms \"neoliberal love values,\" or standards that celebrate normative forms of sexual desire, bodies, and intimacy practices. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs disability representation increases, though, new possibilities are emerging. \u003ci\u003eCrip Love Onscreen\u003c\/i\u003e also draws attention to the exceptional through a close reading of screen narratives (such as \u003ci\u003e50 First Dates, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove and Other Drugs, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Horror Story: Freak Show, \u003c\/i\u003eand more) that push against neoliberal, heteronormative, and ableist values. Drawing on the work of queer\/crip scholars and activists, Rainey-Smithback uncovers glimpses of what Tobin Siebers calls a \"sexual culture for disabled people\"--a space and way of being that expands sexual access and sexual experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Rainey-Smithback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081421603X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814216033\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Sarah Rainey-Smithback","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48114037162239,"sku":"9780814216033","price":99.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_19748bf7-34b3-45dc-a2fe-f6b7599452cc.jpg?v=1769618717","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/crip-love-onscreen-sarah-rainey-smithback-9780814216033","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}