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Crip theory : cultural signs of queerness and disability / Robert McRuer

By: Series: Cultural frontPublication details: New York ; London : New York University Press, 2006.Description: 283 p. : 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780814757130 (pbk.)
  • 0814757138
  • 9780814759868 (ebk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.76601/MAC
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Contents:
Introduction : compulsory able-bodiedness and queer/disabled existence -- Coming out Crip : Malibu is burning -- Capitalism and disabled identity : Sharon Kowalski, interdependency, and queer domesticity -- Noncompliance : The transformation, Gary Fisher, and the limits of rehabilitation -- Composing queerness and disability : the corporate university and alternative corporealities -- Crip eye for the normate guy : queer theory, Bob Flanagan, and the disciplining of disability studies -- Epilogue : specters of disability.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-267) and index.

Introduction : compulsory able-bodiedness and queer/disabled existence -- Coming out Crip : Malibu is burning -- Capitalism and disabled identity : Sharon Kowalski, interdependency, and queer domesticity -- Noncompliance : The transformation, Gary Fisher, and the limits of rehabilitation -- Composing queerness and disability : the corporate university and alternative corporealities -- Crip eye for the normate guy : queer theory, Bob Flanagan, and the disciplining of disability studies -- Epilogue : specters of disability.