Gender, Subjectivity and Sexual Identity: How young people with Disabilities Conceptualise the Body, Sex and Marriage in Urban India

Abstract

Historically in India as elsewhere in the world, there has been a deep-rooted cultural antipathy to persons with disabilities. Throughout the ages the disabled have been looked down upon with disdain, almost as if they were sub-human. They have been portrayed as medical anomalies, helpless victims and a lifelong burden for family and society.