Drawing on memoir, history, and theory, Eli Clare complicates the understanding of cure, seeing it as an ideology that serves contradictory purposesâ from saving lives to social controlâ while critiquing cure rhetoric and the drive to cure disabled people through an insistence of the value of disability.
Drawing on memoir, history, and theory, Eli Clare complicates the understanding of cure, seeing it as an ideology that serves contradictory purposesâ from saving lives to social controlâ while critiquing cure rhetoric and the drive to cure disabled people through an insistence of the value of disability.
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.
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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
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
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