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Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability - Cultural Front (Paperback)
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Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability - Cultural Front (Paperback)

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Published: 01/06/2006
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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.

Publisher: New York University Press
ISBN: 9780814757130
Number of pages: 304
Weight: 431 g
Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

This well-annotated text invites the uninitiated reader to become involved, to reimagine previously held perceptions of what may be considered ‘otherness,’ to welcome disabilities, to access collectively other worlds and future possibilities. - Journal of American Studies

A wonderful combination of humor, theory, intellectual, and personal insights . . . A valuable and well-written study. - Disability Studies Quarterly

A compelling case that queer and disabled identities, politics, and cultural logics are inexorably intertwined, and that queer and disability theory need one another…. Makes clear that no cultural analysis is complete without attention to the politics of bodily ability and alternative corporealities. - Elizabeth Freeman,author of The Wedding Complex

Important and significant for its attempt to find the common ground between disability studies and queer studies. This deftly written and very readable book will appeal to a wide range of readers who are increasingly fascinated by the biocultural interplay between the body, sexuality, gender, and social identity. - Lennard Davis,author of Bending Over Backwards

The members of the Committee were especially impressed by McRuers original intervention in the area of queer studies, one that not only sheds light on the important new area of disability studies, but brings it into conversation with a variety of disciplinary perspectives, from composition studies to performance art. McRuers book combines the public and the private work of queer studies in surprisingly new ways. - Ed Madden, Gay and Lesbian Caucus for the MLA

McRuer charts new intersections for disability studies, queer studies, and American studies. His work is [at its] most vertiginous and rich . . . as he moves swiftly from cinema to street gangs to coming out Crip. - American Quarterly

Engaging, expansive, and generous. - Sex Roles

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