Disability and aging are complex embodied, cultural, and social phenomena that are entangled throughout the life course. Despite this, there has been a dearth of scholarship that examines how disability and aging intersect (Yoshizaki-Gibbons 2018, 2021). Work that also includes sexuality is even more rare. Jane Gallop's succinct yet forceful book, Sexuality, Disability, and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus, is a notable exception. Gallop persuasively contradicts dominant narratives that old age and disability are solely experiences of decline and loss and instead argues that the bodily changes that come with old age and disablement may lead to new, exciting, and transformative experiences of sexuality.
Gallop is well suited to engage in this exploration of sexuality over the life course, as she is building on a long genealogy of theoretical work on sexuality, ranging from her feminist denunciation of androcentric psychoanalytic concepts like phallus and castration, to...
