Capacidad corporal obligatoria y existencia discapacitada queer

Abstract

This paper was originally published with the title “Compulsory Able-bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence” in the volume Disabling the Humanities edited by Sharon L. Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann y Rosemarie Garland-Thomson in 2002. In the paper, Robert McRuer proposes a theory of compulsory able-bodiedness based both in the work of Adrienne Rich and in Judith Butler’s performativity theory. The paper questions that the trouble lies not in disability, but in normality. The author argues the necessity of an alliance among studies and movements of disability and queer .