Brilliant imperfection: grappling with cure
Auteur :
Clare, Eli
Éditeur :
Duke University Press
ISBN :
9780822362876
Date de publication :
3 févr. 2017
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
340 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.