philoSOPHIA State University of New York Press Īlison Kafer Feminist, Queer, Crip Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. Her book clearly shows that this assumption comes with a cost, leading to a lack of public debate or forums for dissent, erasing the various voices that are crucial in building accessible futures. In contrast, Kafer argues that seeing disability as self-evidently negative is a political decision based on ableist thinking that wrongly assumes and constructs the inherent value of able-bodiedness and able-mindedness over disabled bodies and minds. Kafer illustrates that disability is cast outside of the realm of politics not only in popular culture and political movements in the contemporary United States, but also in many critical theories that treat gender, race, class, and sexuality as political. ISBN 978-4-0 Eunjung Kim How might we imagine futures that hold space and possibility for those who communicate in ways we do not yet recognize as communication, let alone understand? Or futures that make room for diverse, unpredictable, and fundamentally unknowable experiences of pleasure? -Alison Kafer, Feminist, Queer, Crip In F eminist, Queer, Crip, Alison Kafer explores disability in time, challenging the assumption that any desirable future would naturally be the future without disability and illness. Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer (review) Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer (review)Īlison Kafer Feminist, Queer, Crip Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013.
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