Description
Product ID: | 9780822362876 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Brilliant Imperfection |
Subtitle: | Grappling with Cure |
Authors: | Author: Eli Clare |
Page Count: | 240 |
Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, Disability: social aspects, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, Sociology, Disability: social aspects, Gay & Lesbian studies, Sociology |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
Imprint Name: | Duke University Press |
Publisher Name: | Duke University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2017-02-03 |