Introduction: Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword: Another Word Is Possible vii
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction: Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence 1
6. 1. Coming Out Crip: Malibu Is Burning 33
7. 2. Capitalism and Disabled Identity: Sharon Kowalski, Interdependency, and Queer Domesticity 77
8. 3. Noncompliance: The Transformation, Gary Fisher, and the Limits of Rehabilitation 103
9. 4. Composing Queerness and Disability: The Corporate University and Alternative Corporealities 146
10. 5. Crip Eye for the Normate Guy: Queer Theory, Bob Flanagan, and the Disciplining of Disability Studies 171
11. Epilogue: Specters of Disability 199
12. Notes 209
13. Works Cited 247
14. Index 269
15. About the Author 283