A Review of "The Outsiders Club" Screened on BBC 2 in October 96
MA Diploma Disability Studies
INTRODUCTION
I decided to write a review on the social group known as The Outsiders. The
group's main aim is to enable disabled adults to form personal relationships,
including specifically sexual ones (Shakespeare 1996), either with each other or
with non-disabled members. The group has been in existence for several years,
and has attracted a great deal of attention, including reaction from present and
former members, and in particular from within the Disabled People's Movement .
Many of the comments made by former members of the group have been critical,
sometimes highly condemnatory, and frequently made by disabled women (Rae 1984).
In both my professional and private capacity I am interested in sexuality and
disability, and specifically in the ways in which disabled adults can establish
meaningful relationships with other people (disabled or on-disabled). Issues
such as sexuality......
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