Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability

by Robert McRuer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814757138
• ISBN13: 9780814757130
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"