During the last decade or so, American disability studies have furthered their positions and are, I would say, one of the most interesting areas within international disability studies today. Robert McRuer’s book Crip Theory is certainly a part of this movement. Aiming to show the intersections between able-bodiedness and heterosexuality, and, as a consequence, the fruitfulness of cross-fertilizing disability and queer studies, Rob McRuer offers us a fresh piece of thoughts on how to theorize disability. The book consists of five chapters, together with an introduction and epilogue. In the introduction, McRuer sketches his main thoughts on how disability and queer intersect, using the five main chapters as different case studies on how this intersection is represented in different materials, both fiction and non-fiction. Earlier versions and portions of two of the chapters and the introduction have been published before. This tends to fragment the book, something I will come back to later. A focal point in McRuer’s book is that the construction of queer and disabled people as certain categories follows the same logic. Both are deviating from the highly celebrated norm of being ‘‘normal’’. Certainly, that is neither a new nor a revolutionary thought. But McRuer sees a strong connection between these two categories. First, they have both provided a critique of normalcy, revealing its constructionist basis. Second, ability and heterosexuality, which are the logics from which disability and queer occur as deviations, are themselves rather difficult to define. They both constitute normality, meaning that what have been defined are the deviations from it. McRuer demonstrates this in different ways, for example by showing how ability and heterosexuality is lexically defined. He states that both heterosexuality and ability are mostly defined by what it is not, eg ability is defined as free from disability.

The invisibility of heterosexuality has been noticed by queer theorists and McRuer tries to give us disability scholars the same kind of awakening vis-a-vis ability. A third connection that McRuer points to is the compulsory nature of both heterosexuality and ability: both conditions are regarded as the most desirable way of being. Homosexuality and disability are not questions of