Crip Theory : Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability.

By: McRuer, RobertContributor(s): Bérubé, MichaelMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Cultural Front SerPublisher: New York : New York University Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (299 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780814759868Subject(s): Heterosexuality - Social aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Crip Theory : Cultural Signs of Queerness and DisabilityDDC classification: 306.76/601 LOC classification: HV1568 -- .M37 2006ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword: Another Word Is Possible, -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Compulsory Able-Bodiedness andQueer/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 CorporateUniversity 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.
Summary: 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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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword: Another Word Is Possible, -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Compulsory Able-Bodiedness andQueer/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 CorporateUniversity 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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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