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Feminist, Queer, Crip

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Alison Kafer
2013
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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 just world.

Table of Contents

Cover

pp. 1-3

Title Page

pp. 4-4

Copyright Page

pp. 5-5

Dedication Page

pp. 6-7

Table of Contents

pp. vii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp. ix-xii

Textual Description of the Cover Art

pp. xiii-xiv

Introduction: Imagined Futures

pp. 1-24

1: Time for Disability Studies and a Future for Crips

pp. 25-46

2: At the Same Time, Out of Time: Ashley X

pp. 47-68

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

pp. 69-85

4: A Future for Whom? Passing on Billboard Liberation

pp. 86-102

5: The Cyborg and the Crip: Critical Encounters

pp. 103-128

6: Bodies of Nature: The Environmental Politics of Disability

pp. 129-148

7: Accessible Futures, Future Coalitions

pp. 149-170

Appendices

pp. 171-178

Notes

pp. 179-224

Bibliography

pp. 225-252

Index

pp. 253-258

About the Author

pp. 276-276
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