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<p>In China, women with disabilities (WWD) confront intersecting patriarchal and ableist structures that marginalize their sexual subjectivity. This study examines how sexual shame operates as an affective force within this intersectional context. Data from 10 in-depth interviews with Chinese WWD were analyzed through an affect-theoretical framework drawing on Wetherell and Ahmed. Findings reveal that sexual shame circulates across bodily, identity, and relational dimensions through a structural double bind: WWD face both patriarchal sexualization and ableist desexualization. This affect adheres to disabled bodies, orienting WWD away from desire, intimacy, and sexual subjectivity. While digital spaces enable limited affective resistance, these practices remain constrained by platform regulation and structural inequality. This study extends affect theory and critical disability studies, revealing sexual shame as a gendered affective mechanism that simultaneously disciplines and generates possibilities for resistance among WWD.</p>

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“A Life Without Desire?”: Affect, Power, and Sexual Shame Among Women with Disabilities in China

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    2026年5月30日

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  • Yifan Jin,
  • Xiaoya Yang

摘要

In China, women with disabilities (WWD) confront intersecting patriarchal and ableist structures that marginalize their sexual subjectivity. This study examines how sexual shame operates as an affective force within this intersectional context. Data from 10 in-depth interviews with Chinese WWD were analyzed through an affect-theoretical framework drawing on Wetherell and Ahmed. Findings reveal that sexual shame circulates across bodily, identity, and relational dimensions through a structural double bind: WWD face both patriarchal sexualization and ableist desexualization. This affect adheres to disabled bodies, orienting WWD away from desire, intimacy, and sexual subjectivity. While digital spaces enable limited affective resistance, these practices remain constrained by platform regulation and structural inequality. This study extends affect theory and critical disability studies, revealing sexual shame as a gendered affective mechanism that simultaneously disciplines and generates possibilities for resistance among WWD.