Feminist, queer, crip / Alison Kafer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kafer, Alison.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disability studies.

Women's studies.

Queer theory.

Physical Description:

xiii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.

Summary:

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 just world. Book jacket.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-252) and index.

ISBN:

9780253009227

0253009227

9780253009340

0253009340

9780253009418

0253009413

OCLC:

795177419