{"product_id":"crip-theory-cultural-signs-of-queerness-and-disability-hardcover","title":"Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert McRuer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMichael Bérubé\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCrip Theory\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cstrong\u003eCrip Theory\u003c\/strong\u003e is the first book to analyze thoroughly the ways in which these interdisciplinary fields inform each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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. \u003cstrong\u003eCrip Theory\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eQueer Eye for the Straight Guy.\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 301\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 8.92 x 6.34 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lambda Literary Awards (2006)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130517262471,"sku":"9780814757123","price":192.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/5d062e96f7a3509e05bfd600afcd35e9_2694c0e8-8808-4ca6-a6ec-efcd7d3e04f8.webp?v=1732611479","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/crip-theory-cultural-signs-of-queerness-and-disability-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}