Expansion of Disability Studies will, he hopes, end in a welcoming, perhaps even a desiring, of disability. He examines the personal experience with the global political agenda and scholarly research with practicality as he explains the need for studying queer and disability history. What is important about this study is McRuer's integration of theory and praxis. The result is a highly accessible and perceptive book, one which I am sure will find itself useful in other studies.Ĭrip Theory is divided into five chapters, going from the personal to the political (Chapter 1, "Coming Out Crip: Malibu is Burning"), to the global (Chapter 2, "Capitalism and Disabled Identity), to the notion of limits on identity (Chapter 3, "Noncompliance: The Transformation, Gary Fisher, and the Limits of Rehabilitation"), to cultural, and institutional places of perceived limitations, (Chapter 4, "Composing Queerness and Disability: The Corporate University and Alternative Corporealities"), to the power of the visuals in Chapter 5's "Crip Eye for the Normate Guy: Queer Theory, Bob Flanagan, and the Disciplining of Disability Studies." McRuer combines the realms of popular culture, and in particular reality shows, with the philosophical maneuvering of Derrida, Sedgwick, and other theorists. Robert McRuer's Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability, is a wonderful combination of humor, theory, intellectual, and personal insights. Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability.
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