Clare, Eli
Brilliant Imperfection
- ISBN 13:
- 9780822362876
- author:
- Clare, Eli
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Duke University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2017
- Pages:
- 240
- Dimensions:
- 22.86 x 15.24 x 1.27 centimetres
- Genre:
- 22.86 x 15.24 x 1.27 centimetres, Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Gay Studies,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure by Eli Clare explores the complex and often contradictory nature of "cure" - a deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed. Through memoir, history, and critical analysis, Clare examines how cure serves multiple purposes, from saving lives to justifying violence. The book delves into various aspects of cure, including disability stereotypes, weight loss surgery, gender transition, skin lightening creams, and environmental politics. Clare argues that neither an anti-cure nor a pro-cure worldview can fully account for the messy relationships we have with our body-minds. Instead, he insists on the nonnegotiable value of body-mind difference. Ultimately, Brilliant Imperfection reveals cure to be an ideology grounded in the twin notions of normal and natural, slippery and powerful, necessary and damaging all at once.
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