Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
10 best books like Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability (Robert McRuer): Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation, Scars Tell Stories: A Queer and Trans (Dis)ability Zine, The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability: For All of Us Who Live with Disabilities, Chronic Pain, and Illness, Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology, Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature, The Disability Studies Reader, Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times, Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures, Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora
| Author | Eli Clare |
| ISBN | 0896086054 |
“Eli Clare works a vital alchemy. . . . Using the language of the elemental world, he delineates a complex human intersection and transmutes cruelty into its opposite—a potent, lifegiving remedy.”—Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home
First published in 1999, Exile & Pride established...
| Author | Colin Kennedy Donovan |
Through poetry, art, and essays, this zine tells our stories—funny, sexy, and complex—as a radical act of resistance, and prioritizes the work of trans people and people of color working for radical social change.
Featuring artwork, poetry, and essays by Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Sarain...
The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability: For All of Us Who Live with Disabilities, Chronic Pain, and Illness
| Author | Miriam Kaufman |
| ISBN | 1573441767 |
The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability is a long-overdue self-help sex guide for the millions of people living with disabilities and chronic pain and illness. For sufferers of ailments from chronic fatigue syndrome and spinal cord injury to multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, and others, the book...
| Author | Amy Sonnie |
| ISBN | 1555835589 |
Invisible. Unheard. Alone. Chilling words, but apt to describe the isolation and alienation of queer youth. In silence and fear they move from childhood memories of intolerance or violence to the unknown, unmentored landscape of queer adulthood, their voices stilled or ignored. No longer. Revolutionary...
Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature
| Author | Rosemarie Garland-Thomson |
| ISBN | 0231105177 |
As the first major critical study to examine literary and cultural representations of physical disability, Extraordinary Bodies situates disability as a social construction, shifting it from a property of bodies to a product of cultural rules about what bodies should be or do. Rosemarie Garland...
The Disability Studies Reader
| Author | Lennard J. Davis |
| ISBN | 0415953340 |
The Disability Studies Reader collects, for the first time, representative texts from the newly emerging field of disability studies. This volume represents a major advance in presenting the most important writings about disability with an emphasis on those writers working from a materialist...
| Author | Siobhan B. Somerville |
| ISBN | 0822324431 |
Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was “invented” as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature,...
In this pathbreaking work, Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism. She examines how liberal politics incorporate certain queer...
| Author | Gayatri Gopinath |
| ISBN | 0822335131 |
By bringing queer theory to bear on ideas of diaspora, Gayatri Gopinath produces both a more compelling queer theory and a more nuanced understanding of diaspora. Focusing on queer female diasporic subjectivity, Gopinath develops a theory of diaspora apart from the logic of blood, authenticity,...
| Author | Martin F. Manalansan IV |
| ISBN | 0822332175 |
A vivid ethnography of the global and transnational dimensions of gay identity as lived by Filipino immigrants in New York City, Global Divas challenges beliefs about the progressive development of a gay world and the eventual assimilation of all queer folks into gay modernity. Insisting that gay...
Speaking Sex to Power: The Politics of Queer Sex
| Author | Patrick Califia-Rice |
| ISBN | 1573441325 |
Hailed "a revolutionary antidote to America's growing sexual conservatism," Patrick Califia is the most outspoken and intelligent commentator on sexual politics writing today. Following the acclaimed publication of Public Sex and Sex Changes, Califia once again exposes American mainstream...
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics
| Author | José Esteban Muñoz |
| ISBN | 0816630151 |
There is more to identity than identifying with one’s culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Muñoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture—not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming...
Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment
| Author | James I. Charlton |
| ISBN | 0520224817 |
James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental disabilities....
Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability
| Author | Paul K. Longmore |
| ISBN | 1592130240 |
This wide-ranging book shows why Paul Longmore is one of the most respected figures in disability studies today. Understanding disability as a major variety of human experience, he urges us to establish it as a category of social, political, and historical analysis in much the same way that race, gender,...
The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life
| Author | Michael Warner |
| ISBN | 0674004418 |
A comprehensive and incisive excoriation of same-sex marriage as a movement for "gay liberation." Warner's investigations of the interactions between gay shame and a push for same-sex marriage (see also Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and Benjamin Shepard) is a useful lens to explore the millions...
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
| Author | J. Jack Halberstam |
| ISBN | 0814735851 |
In his first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, J. Jack Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. He presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative...
The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public
In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, municipallaws targeting "unsightly beggars" sprang up in cities across America. Seeming to criminalize disability and thus offering a visceral example of discrimination, these "ugly laws" have become a sort of shorthand for oppression...
The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability
| Author | Susan Wendell |
| ISBN | 0415910471 |
The Rejected Body
argues that feminist theorizing has been skewed toward non-disabled experience, and that the knowledge of people with disabilities must be integrated into feminist ethics, discussions of bodily life, and criticism of the cognitive and social authority of medicine. Among the...
| Author | Alison Kafer |
| ISBN | 0253009227 |
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...
| Author | Tobin Anthony Siebers |
| ISBN | 0472050397 |
"Disability Theory is just the book we've been waiting for. Clear, cogent, compelling analyses of the tension between the 'social model' of disability and the material details of impairment; of identity politics and unstable identities; of capability rights and human interdependence; of disability...
Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History
| Author | Heather Love |
| ISBN | 0674026527 |
"Feeling Backward" weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for same-sex marriage and for gay-themed media brings clear benefits, gay assimilation entails other losses--losses that have been hard to identify or mourn,...
Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique
| Author | Roderick A. Ferguson |
| ISBN | 0816641293 |
The sociology of race relations in America typically describes an intersection of poverty, race, and economic discrimination. But what is missing from the picture--sexual difference--can be as instructive as what is present. In this ambitious work, Roderick A. Ferguson reveals how the discourses...
