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Crip theory : cultural signs of queerness and disability

Drawing on feminist theory, African American and Latino cultural theories, composition studies, film and TV studies, and theories of globalisation/counter-globalisation, this book articulates key concerns of crip theory and considers how such a perspective might impact cultural and historical inquiry in the humanities
Print Book, English, ©2006
New York University Press, New York, ©2006
xvi, 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9780814757123, 9780814757130, 9781435600393, 081475712X, 0814757138, 1435600398
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Foreword: Another Word Is Possible, by Michael Berube Acknowledgments Introduction: Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/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 Corporate University 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 IndexAbout the Author