Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability

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NYU Press, 2006 - 283 páginas

A bold and contemporary discourse of the intersection of disability studies and queer studies

Crip 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 identities are represented as “normal” or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to analyze thoroughly the ways in which these interdisciplinary fields inform each other.

Drawing on feminist theory, African American and Latino/a cultural theories, composition studies, film and television studies, and theories of globalization and counter-globalization, Robert McRuer articulates the central concerns of crip theory and considers how such a critical perspective might impact cultural and historical inquiry in the humanities. Crip Theory puts forward readings of the Sharon Kowalski story, the performance art of Bob Flanagan, and the journals of Gary Fisher, as well as critiques of the domesticated queerness and disability marketed by the Millennium March, or Bravo TV’s Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. McRuer examines how dominant and marginal bodily and sexual identities are composed, and considers the vibrant ways that disability and queerness unsettle and re-write those identities in order to insist that another world is possible.

 

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Compulsory AbleBodiedness andQueerDisabled Existence
1
Malibu Is Burning
33
Sharon KowalskiInterdependency and Queer Domesticity
77
The Transformation Gary Fisherand the Limits of Rehabilitation
103
The CorporateUniversity and Alternative Corporealities
146
Queer TheoryBob Flanagan and the Disciplining of Disability Studies
171
Specters of Disability
199
Notes
209
Works Cited
247
Index
269
About the Author
283
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Sobre el autor (2006)

Robert McRuer is Professor of English at George Washington University. He is the author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability and The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities (both also available from NYU Press). With Anna Mollow, he co-edited the anthology Sex and Disability.

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