Skip to main content
Log in

What’s Crip About Queer Theory Now?

Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability. By Robert McRuer, New York, New York University Press, 2006. 283 pp. $22.00 (paperback). ISBN-10: 0814757138

  • Book Review
  • Published:
Sex Roles Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Anzaldúa, G. (1987). Borderlands/La frontera: the new mestiza. San Francisco: Aunt Lute.

    Google Scholar 

  • Butler, J. (1990). Gender trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity. New York: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Butler, J. (1991). Imitation and gender insubordination. In D. Fuss (Ed.), Inside/out: lesbian theories, gay theories (pp. 13–31). New York: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Butler, J. (1993). Critically queer. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 1, 17–32.

    Google Scholar 

  • Davis, M. (1990). City of quartz: excavating the future in Los Angeles. New York: Vintage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Duggan, L. (2003). The twilight of equality: neoliberalism, cultural politics, and the attack on democracy. Boston: Beacon.

    Google Scholar 

  • Eng, D., Halberstam, J., & Muñoz, J. (2005). Introduction: what’s queer about queer studies now? Social Text, 23(84–85), 1–18.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Fisher, G. (1996). Gary in your pocket: stories and notebooks of Gary Fisher. In E. K. Sedgwick (Ed.). Durham, NC: Duke University.

  • Fisher, W.F., & Ponniah, T. (Eds.) (2003). Another world is possible: popular alternatives to globalization at the World Social Forum. London: Zed.

  • Flanagan, B. (2000). The pain journal. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e).

    Google Scholar 

  • Fox Television (2004). The littlest groom.

  • Garland-Thomson, R. (1997). Extraordinary bodies: figuring physical disability in American culture and literature. New York: Columbia University.

    Google Scholar 

  • Garland-Thomson, R. (2001). Seeing the disabled: visual rhetorics of disability in popular photography. In P. K. Longmore, & L. Umansky (Eds.), The new disability history: American perspectives (pp. 335–374). New York: New York University.

    Google Scholar 

  • Garland-Thompson, R. (2002). The politics of staring: visual rhetorics of disability in popular photography. In S. L. Snyder, et al. (Ed.), Disability studies: enabling the humanities (pp. 56–75). New York: Modern Languages Association.

    Google Scholar 

  • Linton, S. (1998). Claiming disability: knowledge and identity. New York: New York University.

    Google Scholar 

  • McRuer, R., & Wilkerson, A.L. (Eds.) (2003). Desiring disability: queer theory meets disability studies. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 9.

  • Moraga, C., & Anzaldúa, G. (Eds.) (1981). This bridge called my back: writings by radical women of color. New York: Kitchen Table.

  • Muñoz, J. E. (1999). Disidentifications: queers of color and the performance of politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sandahl, C. (2003). Queering the crip or cripping the queer? Intersections of queer and crip identities in solo autobiographical performance. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 9, 25–56.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Soja, E. W. (1989). Postmodern geographies: the reassertion of space in critical social theory. London: Verso.

    Google Scholar 

  • TAC (Treatment Action Campaign). (1998). About the Treatment Action Campaign. Retrieved June 13, 2008, from http://www.tac.org.za/community/about.

  • Wade, C. M. (Writer), & Smith, J. (Director). (2000). Disability culture rap. Advocating Change Together.

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Alison Kafer.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Kafer, A. What’s Crip About Queer Theory Now?. Sex Roles 60, 291–294 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-008-9511-6

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-008-9511-6

Navigation