Format:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 283 p)
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ill
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0814757138
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081475712X
Series Statement:
Cultural front
Content:
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 centr
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-267) and index
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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
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IndexAbout the Author
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814757123
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Crip Theory : Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
Language:
English
