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0188/2025 - Overprotection and intersectionalities regarding the sexuality young women with disabilities: nuances between care and control
Superproteção e interseccionalidades em face à sexualidade de mulheres jovens com deficiência: nuances entre o cuidado e o controle

Author:

• Fernanda Diniz de Sá - Sá, FD - <fernanda.sa@ufrn.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8525-7718

Co-author(s):

• Marcia Reis Longhi - Longhi, MR - <marciareislonghi@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7438-5466


Abstract:

This article aims to discuss how the intersection of gender, disability, and social class, within the context of care relationships, can impact the sexual rights of young women with disabilities. The qualitative research was conducted in the metropolitan region of João Pessoa, Brazil, with four participants through in-depth interviews. It analyzed the lived experiences related to sexuality in the youth of cis-heterosexual women with physical disabilities during the 2000s and 2010s. The theoretical-analytical framework was grounded in intersectional approaches from the fields of care studies and disability studies, considering gender, class, and disability in articulation with sexual experiences during youth. The study highlights the challenges and coping strategies adopted by the participants as forms of resistance to socially imposed norms of body normality (corponormativity), which position them as exclusively dependent and infantilized. Within care relationships, these stereotypes give rise to behaviors of discouragement or oppression in their affective and sexual lives, as well as in other dimensions of social life. Discourses and practices associated with care, when distorted into overprotection, operate as mechanisms of control over the sexuality of young women with disabilities.

Keywords:

women with disabilities, sexuality, youth, care, overprotection, intersectionality.

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Sá, FD, Longhi, MR. Overprotection and intersectionalities regarding the sexuality young women with disabilities: nuances between care and control. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2025/Jun). [Citado em 05/12/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/overprotection-and-intersectionalities-regarding-the-sexuality-young-women-with-disabilities-nuances-between-care-and-control/19664?id=19664



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