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Brilliant imperfection : grappling with cure /
Drawing on memoir, history, and theory, Eli Clare complicates the understanding of cure, seeing it as an ideology that serves contradictory purposes-from saving lives to social control-while critiquing cure rhetoric and the drive to cure disabled people through an insistence of the value of disabili...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: writing a mosaic
- A note on reading this book: thinking about trigger warnings
- Brilliant imperfection: white pines
- Ideology of cure
- Birth
- Prayers, crystals, vitamins
- Beliefs about disability
- Overcoming disability
- Hope in motion
- Rebelling against cure
- The restoration of health
- Walking in the prairie
- Brilliant imperfection: twitches and tremors
- Violence of cure
- Defect
- At the center of cure lies eradication
- Personhood is a weapon
- Great turmoil
- Brilliant imperfection: maples
- In tandem with cure
- Cerebral palsy
- Reading diagnosis
- Disorder
- Antibiotics and acupuncture
- The price of diagnosis
- Useful, but to whom?
- Brilliant imperfection: stone
- Nuances of cure
- Wishing you less pain
- Wanting cure
- Birthmark
- Cautionary tale
- Body-mind yearning
- Yearning for the peeper pond
- Jostling my anti-cure politics
- Your suicide haunts me
- Brilliant imperfection: shells
- Structure of cure
- The medical-industrial complex
- A far-reaching network
- Troubled and troubling body-minds
- Variations on cure
- Skin lighteners and hot springs
- Brilliant imperfection: hermit crabs
- How cure works
- Cure just around the corner
- Charity events
- Shifting technologies
- A pharmaceutical history of eflornithine
- Brilliant imperfection: rolling
- At the center of cure
- Carrie Buck I: yearning
- Carrie Buck II: torrent of history
- Carrie Buck III: feebleminded
- Lives reduced to case files
- Living with monkey
- Schizophrenia
- Brilliant imperfection: Myrtle
- Moving through cure
- Choosing disability
- Airports and cornfields
- Interdependence
- Wanting a flat chest
- Gender identity disorder
- Claiming ourselves
- Brilliant imperfection: drag queen
- Impacts of cure
- Endless questions
- Ashley's father
- Resisting intelligence
- Feeling broken
- Being fixed
- Shame and pride
- Brilliant imperfection: survival notes
- Promise of cure
- Normal and natural
- Finding wholeness
- Gender transition
- Bullied
- A maze of contradictions
- Mama, what will you swear?
- Walking in the prairie again
- Brilliant imperfection: cycling.