{"product_id":"crip-theory-cultural-signs-of-queerness-and-disability-9780814757130","title":"Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold and contemporary discourse of the intersection of disability studies and queer studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCrip Theory\u003c\/i\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 \u003ci\u003eCrip Theory\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to analyze thoroughly the ways in which these interdisciplinary fields inform each other. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003ci\u003eCrip Theory\u003c\/i\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 \u003ci\u003eQueer Eye for the Straight Guy\u003c\/i\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcRuer, Robert:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eRobert McRuer\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at George Washington University. He is the author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability and The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities (both also available from NYU Press). With Anna Mollow, he co-edited the anthology Sex and Disability.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBérubé, Michael:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eMichael Bérubé \u003c\/b\u003eis Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Penn State University. In 2012, he served as the President of the Modern Language Association. He is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eEmployment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies \u003c\/i\u003e(NYU Press, 1997), \u003ci\u003eThe Left at War\u003c\/i\u003e (NYU Press, 2009), \u003ci\u003eWhat's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and \" Bias\" in Higher Education \u003c\/i\u003e(2006), and L\u003ci\u003eife as We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child \u003c\/i\u003e(1996).","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50649905266962,"sku":"9780814757130","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_099fadfc-f15b-4dc9-bab3-7397093c3a4d.jpg?v=1733276585","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/crip-theory-cultural-signs-of-queerness-and-disability-9780814757130","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}