Feminist, Queer, Crip

Name: Feminist, Queer, Crip
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ISBN: 9780253009340

ISBN-10: 0253009340

ISBN-13: 9780253009340

Edition: 2013

Authors: Alison Kafer

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In Feminist, Queer, Crip Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a pre-determined limit. She juxtaposes theories, movements, and identities such as environmental justice, reproductive justice, cyborg theory, transgender politics, and disability that are typically discussed in isolation and envisions new possibilities for crip futures and feminist/queer/crip alliances. This bold book goes against the grain of normalization and promotes a political framework for a more…

Book details

List price: $22.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 5/16/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 276
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Textual Description of the Cover Art


Introduction: Imagined Futures



Time for Disability Studies and a Future for Crips



At the Same Time, Out of Time: Ashley X



Debating Feminist Futures: Slippery Slopes, Cultural Anxiety, and the Case of the Deaf Lesbians



A Future for Whom? Passing on Billboard Liberation



The Cyborg and the Crip: Critical Encounters



Bodies of Nature: The Environmental Politics of Disability



Accessible Futures, Future Coalitions


Appendices


Notes


Bibliography


Index