Feminist, queer, crip

Select all Front Matter (pp. i-vi) Front Matter (pp. i-vi) https://www-jstor-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.1 Table of Contents (pp. vii-viii) Table of Contents (pp. vii-viii) https://www-jstor-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.2 Acknowledgments (pp. ix-xii) Acknowledgments (pp. ix-xii) https://www-jstor-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.3 Textual Description of the Cover Art (pp. xiii-xvi) Textual Description of the Cover Art (pp. xiii-xvi) https://www-jstor-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.4 Introduction: Imagined Futures (pp. 1-24) Introduction: Imagined Futures (pp. 1-24) https://www-jstor-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.5 I have never consulted a seer or psychic; I have never asked a fortune-teller for her crystal ball. No one has searched my tea leaves for answers or my stars for omens, and my palms remain unread. But people have been telling my future for years. Of fortune cookies and tarot cards they have no need: my wheelchair, burn scars, and gnarled hands apparently tell them all they need to know. My future is written on my body. In 1995, six months after the fire, my doctor suggested that my thoughts of graduate school were premature, if not misguided. He... 1 Time for Disability Studies and a Future for Crips (pp. 25-46) 1 Time for Disability Studies and a Future for Crips (pp. 25-46) https://www-jstor-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.6 What would it mean to explore disability in time or to articulate “crip time”? Temporal categories are already commonly used in formulations of disability; one aspect of cripping time might simply be to map the extent to which we conceptualize disability in temporal terms. The medical field in particular has a long tradition of describing disability in reference to time. “Chronic” fatigue, “intermittent” symptoms, and “constant” pain are each ways of defining illness and disability in and through time; they describe disability in terms of duration. “Frequency,” “incidence,” “occurrence,” “relapse,” “remission”: these, too, are the time frames of symptoms, illness,... 2 At the Same Time, Out of Time: Ashley X (pp. 47-68) 2 At the Same Time, Out of Time: Ashley X (pp. 47-68) https://www-jstor-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.7 In thinking about crip futurity, I find myself haunted by Ashley X. Born in 1997, the girl known as Ashley X was diagnosed with “static encephalopathy” a few months after her birth. “In the ensuing years,” doctors note, “her development never progressed beyond that of an infant,” and her doctors held no hope that her cognitive or neurological baseline would improve.¹ “At the age of 6 years, she [could] not sit up, ambulate, or use language.”² Concerned about their daughter’s long-term future, Ashley’s parents met with doctors in 2004 to discuss the potential effects of puberty and physical growth on... 3 Debating Feminist Futures: Slippery Slopes, Cultural Anxiety, and the Case of the Deaf Lesbians (pp. 69-85) 3 Debating Feminist Futures: Slippery Slopes, Cultural Anxiety, and the Case of the Deaf Lesbians (pp. 69-85) https://www-jstor-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.8 The pervasiveness of prenatal testing, and especially its acceptance as part of the standard of care for pregnant women, casts women as responsible for their future children’s able-bodiedness/able-mindedness; prospective parents are urged to take advantage of these services so as to avoid burdening their future children with any disabilities.¹ This notion of “burdening” children finds an echo in the debate over same-sex marriage, with LGBT couples cast as selfish parents, placing their own desires over the physical and mental health of their children (and, by extension, of all children). Moreover, according to Timothy Dailey of the Family Research Council, homosexual... 4 A Future for Whom? Passing on Billboard Liberation (pp. 86-102) 4 A Future for Whom? Passing on Billboard Liberation (pp. 86-102) https://www-jstor-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.9 “Super man,” the billboard exclaims, the unfamiliar gap between the two words emphasizing both the noun and its adjective. Below this phrase is the word “STRENGTH,” followed by the imperative “Pass It On.” At the bottom, in small print, runs the name and web address of the organization behind this public relations campaign: Values.com/Foundation for a Better Life. The “super man” referenced in the caption is, of course, the late Christopher Reeve, the white actor who starred in a series ofSupermanfilms in the 1980s before becoming a quadriplegic in a riding accident in 1995. A black-and-white photograph of... 5 The Cyborg and the Crip: Critical Encounters (pp. 103-128) 5 The Cyborg and the Crip: Critical Encounters (pp. 103-128) https://www-jstor-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.10 Controversy came quickly to the cyborg. In 1983,Socialist Reviewinvited several feminist theorists, among them Donna Haraway, “to write about the future of socialist feminism in the context of the early Reagan era.”¹ Haraway responded with “A Manifesto for Cyborgs,” framing the cyborg as a figure of feminist critique.² Her cyborg was a radical border-crosser, blurring the boundaries between human and animal, machine and organism, physical and non-physical.³ Such a cyborg, she argued, could “guide us to a more livable place,” an “elsewhere,” in which “people are not afraid of their joint kinship with animals and machines, not afraid... 6 Bodies of Nature: The Environmental Politics of Disability (pp. 129-148) 6 Bodies of Nature: The Environmental Politics of Disability (pp. 129-148) https://www-jstor-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.11 Although concern with the environment has long been an animating force in disability studies and activism, “environment” in this context typically refers to the built environment of buildings, sidewalks, and transportation technologies. Indeed, the social model of disability is premised on concern for the built environment, stressing that people are disabled not by their bodies but by their inaccessible environments. (The wheelchair user confronting a flight of steps is probably the most common illustration of this argument.) Yet the very pervasiveness of the social model has prevented disability studies from engaging with the wider environment of wilderness, parks, and nonhuman... 7 Accessible Futures, Future Coalitions (pp. 149-170) 7 Accessible Futures, Future Coalitions (pp. 149-170) https://www-jstor-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.12 When describing disability studies to my students, I often draw on Douglas Baynton’s insight that “disability is everywhere in history once you begin looking for it.”¹ For Baynton, “looking for it” entails not only recovering the stories of disabled people or tracing histories of disability discrimination but also exploring how notions of disability and able-mindedness/able-bodiedness have functioned in different contexts. Baynton issues his provocation to historians, but disability studies scholars in other fields have extended its reach, pushing their own colleagues to recognize disability as a category of analysis. Deeply influenced by and indebted to this work, I use this... Appendices (pp. 171-178) Appendices (pp. 171-178) https://www-jstor-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.13 Notes (pp. 179-224) Notes (pp. 179-224) https://www-jstor-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.14 Bibliography (pp. 225-252) Bibliography (pp. 225-252) https://www-jstor-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.15 Index (pp. 253-258) Index (pp. 253-258) https://www-jstor-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.16 Back Matter (pp. 259-259) Back Matter (pp. 259-259) https://www-jstor-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.17 Indiana University Press logo Front Matter Download XML Table of Contents Download XML Acknowledgments Download XML Textual Description of the Cover Art Download XML Introduction:: Imagined Futures Download XML Time for Disability Studies and a Future for Crips Download XML At the Same Time, Out of Time:: Ashley X Download XML Debating Feminist Futures:: Slippery Slopes, Cultural Anxiety, and the Case of the Deaf Lesbians Download XML A Future for Whom?: Passing on Billboard Liberation Download XML The Cyborg and the Crip:: Critical Encounters Download XML Bodies of Nature:: The Environmental Politics of Disability Download XML Accessible Futures, Future Coalitions Download XML Appendices Download XML Notes Download XML Bibliography Download XML Index Download XML Back Matter Download XML ABOUT US About JSTOR Mission and History JSTOR Labs JSTOR Daily News Webinars Careers EXPLORE CONTENT What's in JSTOR Advanced Search By Subject By Title Collections Publisher Images RESEARCH TOOLS Data for Research The JSTOR Understanding Series Constellate HELP CENTER Get Support Get Access LibGuides Research Basics Contact Us For Librarians For Publishers Teaching Resources JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways.©2000‍–2024 ITHAKA. All Rights Reserved. JSTOR®, the JSTOR logo, JPASS®, Artstor®, Reveal Digital™ and ITHAKA® are registered trademarks of ITHAKA. Terms & Conditions of Use Privacy Policy Accessibility Cookie Policy Cookie Settings Description 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.

Section: xiii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm