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Brilliant imperfection : grappling with cure / Eli Clare.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 218 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822373520
  • 0822373521
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Brilliant imperfection.DDC classification:
  • 305.9/08 23
LOC classification:
  • HV1568
Online resources: Summary: 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.
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Book Book Janis P. Bellack Library General Stacks DIV CULHU BRILLIANT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 36349000026525

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-208)and index.

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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.

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