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Kafer, Alison.

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Accessible futures? Disability, feminist and queer theory, and progressive politics.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Accessible futures? Disability, feminist and queer theory, and progressive politics./
Author:	Kafer, Alison.
Description:	319 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-01, Section: A, page: 0376.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-01A.
Subject:	Women's Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3159642
ISBN:	0496927477

Accessible futures? Disability, feminist and queer theory, and progressive politics.
Kafer, Alison.

Accessible futures? Disability, feminist and queer theory, and progressive politics. - 319 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-01, Section: A, page: 0376.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Claremont Graduate University, 2005.

This dissertation traces how progressive political visions, from cyborg theory to ecofeminism to feminist utopian fiction, rely on a medical model of disability; depicting disability as an individual problem requiring medical, rather than political, solutions. I argue that these visions are characterized by a normalizing impulse, erasing or marginalizing bodies marked as defective, disabled, or deviant. Focusing on the United States from 1990 through 2004, I draw on a mixture of feminist, queer, and disability theories in my analysis of popular culture and theoretical discourse. Through my examination of the representation of disability and able-bodiedness in progressive politics, I situate disability squarely within the realm of the political. My intent is to contextualize the meanings typically attributed to disability, thereby positioning "disability" as a set of practices and associations that can be contested and transformed.

ISBN: 0496927477Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017481
Women's Studies.

Accessible futures? Disability, feminist and queer theory, and progressive politics.
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520 $a This dissertation traces how progressive political visions, from cyborg theory to ecofeminism to feminist utopian fiction, rely on a medical model of disability; depicting disability as an individual problem requiring medical, rather than political, solutions. I argue that these visions are characterized by a normalizing impulse, erasing or marginalizing bodies marked as defective, disabled, or deviant. Focusing on the United States from 1990 through 2004, I draw on a mixture of feminist, queer, and disability theories in my analysis of popular culture and theoretical discourse. Through my examination of the representation of disability and able-bodiedness in progressive politics, I situate disability squarely within the realm of the political. My intent is to contextualize the meanings typically attributed to disability, thereby positioning "disability" as a set of practices and associations that can be contested and transformed.
520 $a Chapter One traces cyborg theorists' tendency to present disability as a metaphor for hybrid bodies, a representation that assumes that disabled bodies exemplify the human/machine interface. This pervasive use of the disabled body as an illustration of cyborgism presents a medicalized image of disability and perpetuates ableist ideologies of wholeness, rendering the cyborg figure problematic for disability politics. In Chapter Two, I argue that ecofeminist political visions are often predicated on an "engagement with nature," an experience that typically assumes a nondisabled body. I note in Chapter Three that representations of possible genetic futures are characterized by a debate over the appropriate use of technology: technological attempts to eliminate disability are met with widespread support because they are assumed to mark progress toward a better future, while refusals of such "healing" technology are condemned as backward and dystopic. What these three bodies of knowledge have in common is a failure to recognize disability as political and disabled people as political agents. In Chapter Four, I articulate an alternative political vision, a "politics of access" that counters this erasure of disability from the political. Building on the work of queer disability activists, I propose a politics that relishes disability and difference, a politics grounded in coalition work, one that is committed to both solidarity and dissent.
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