Desiring Disability: Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies Volume 9

by Eli Clare and Abby L. Wilkerson

In multiple locations, activists and scholars are mapping the intersections of queer theory and disability studies, moving issues of embodiment and desire to the center of cultural and political analyses. The two fields are premised on the idea that the categories of heterosexual/homosexual and able-bodied/disabled are historically and socially constructed. Desiring Disability: Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies explores how the frameworks for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822365510
• ISBN13: 9780822365518
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 9.6"