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Author McRuer, Robert, 1966-

Title Crip theory [electronic resource] : cultural signs of queerness and disability / Robert McRuer ; foreword by Michael Berube.

Imprint New York : New York University Press, c2006.

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Description xvi, 283 p. : ill.
Series Cultural front
Cultural front (Series)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-267) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Sociology of disability.
Homosexuality -- Social aspects.
Heterosexuality -- Social aspects.
Marginality, Social.
Culture.
Queer theory.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 081475712X (cloth : alk. paper)
0814757138 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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