Clare Brilliant Imperfection

Grappling with Cure
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7352-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

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 disability.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clare, Eli

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Writing a Mosaic xv
A Note on Reading This Book: Thinking about Trigger Warnings xix
Brilliant Imperfection: White Pines 1
1. Ideology of Cure 7
Brilliant Imperfection: Twitches and Tremors 19
2. Violence of Cure 21
Brilliant Imperfection: Maples 33
3. In Tandem with Cure 37
Brlliant Imperfection: Stone 49
4. Nuances of Cure 51
Brilliant Imperfection: Shells 65
5. Structure of Cure 67
Brilliant Imperfection: Hermit Crabs 81
6. How Cure Works 83
Brilliant Imperfection: Rolling 99
7. At the Center of Cure 101
Brilliant Imperfection: Myrtle 125
8. Moving Through Cure 127
Brilliant Imperfection: Drag Queen 147
9. Impacts fo Cure 149
Brilliant Imperfection: Survival Notes 169
10. Promise of Cure 171
Brilliant Imperfection: Cycling 189
Notes 191
Bibliography 201
Index 209

Über Autor(innen)

Eli Clare is a poet, essayist, activist, and the author of Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation, also published by Duke University Press, and The Marrow's Telling: Words in Motion. He speaks regularly at conferences, community events, and colleges across the United States and Canada about disability, queer and trans identities, and social justice, and his writing has appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies.