Crip Theory by Robert McRuer
Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
This book develops a theoretical framework that links disability and queer studies to show how cultural norms around ability and sexuality are mutually constructed and policed. Arguing that “compulsory able-bodiedness” operates alongside compulsory heterosexuality, it reads literature, film, and political discourse to reveal how normativity produces and marginalizes nonnormative bodies and desires, and it calls for queer/crip coalitions and alternative forms of citizenship and resistance that challenge neoliberal and rehabilitative ideals.
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- 2006
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