Crip Theory : : Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability /

Crip Theory : : Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability / / Robert McRuer.

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A bold and contemporary discourse of the intersection of disability studies and queer studiesCrip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and ide...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
McRuer, Robert,
MitwirkendeR:
Bérubé, Michael,
TeilnehmendeR:
Bérubé, Michael.
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Series:Cultural Front ; 9
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword: Another Word Is Possible
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence
  • 1. Coming Out Crip: Malibu Is Burning
  • 2. Capitalism and Disabled Identity: Sharon Kowalski, Interdependency, and Queer Domesticity
  • 3. Noncompliance: The Transformation, Gary Fisher, and the Limits of Rehabilitation
  • 4. Composing Queerness and Disability: The Corporate University and Alternative Corporealities
  • 5. Crip Eye for the Normate Guy: Queer Theory, Bob Flanagan, and the Disciplining of Disability Studies
  • Epilogue: Specters of Disability
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • About the Author

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