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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.
Paperback: 276 pages
Publisher: Indiana University Press; 1 edition (May 16, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0253009340
ISBN-13: 978-0253009340
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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This book changed the way I think about life. Kafer is an outstanding scholar and writer who offers astute and challenging insights from her feminist queer crip perspective. This is not a book only for certain groups of people. Kafer's manuscript de-centers how we think about life in general and invites readers to consider new, and in my view liberating, perspectives. Each chapter (and in some cases each page) stirred for me new ideas, questions, and challenges. I am grateful to this offer. Her book has de-centered and thus changed me.
It's a book that I needed to get for a class and read a chapter and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it so I'm buying another copy for a friend with interest in the topic.
For lesbian/gender-queer people with physical disabilities. It's not about a feminist queer that becomes a "crip" (that sounded more interesting). They might want to clear that up. This is not a novel.- Andrew
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