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Brilliant Imperfection : Grappling with Cure /
"In Brilliant Imperfection Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cure--the deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed. Cure serves many purposes. It saves lives, manipulates lives, and prioritizes some lives over others. It provides comfort,...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.