Reading Assignment Template Class 7 CGS 105 Summer 2019 –
Due 1100am Tuesday July 23 (upload the completed template as a pdf to website, or if you can’t get that to work, e-mail the completed template to the instructors.
Instructions: Please answer the following questions.

1) What specifically is compulsory about compulsory able-bodiedness and how is it similar to and how is it different from compulsory heterosexuality?

2) Drawing upon Foucault, Butler and McRuer, critique Norah Vincent's statement: “It's hard to deny that something called normalcy exists. The human body is a machine, after all – one that has evolved functional parts: lungs for breathing, legs for walking, eyes for seeing, ears for hearing, a tongue for speaking and most crucially for all the academics concerned, a brain for thinking. This is science, not culture.”

3) What different sort of interaction with Nature for able-bodied people does Kafer's descriptions of encounters with Nature by disabled people suggest?

4) Define cripping; define queering.