Brilliant imperfection : grappling with cure, Eli Clare

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Label

Brilliant imperfection : grappling with cure, Eli Clare

Title remainder

grappling with cure

Statement of responsibility

Eli Clare

Instantiates

• Brilliant imperfection : grappling with cure

Publication

• Durham, Duke University Press, 2017

Copyright

• ©2017

Note

Source of cataloging data: WCP

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-208) and index

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

Introduction: Writing a mosaic -- A note on reading this book : thinking about trigger warnings -- Brilliant imperfection : white pines -- Ideology of Cure. Birth -- Prayers, crystals, vitamins -- Beliefs about disability -- Overcoming disability -- Hope in motion -- Rebelling against cure -- The restoration of health -- Walking in the prairie -- Brilliant imperfection : twitches and tremors -- Violence of Cure. Defect -- At the center of cure lies eradication -- Personhood is a weapon -- Great turmoil -- Brilliant imperfection : maples -- In Tandem with Cure. Cerebral palsy -- Reading diagnosis -- Disorder -- Antibiotics and acupuncture -- The price of diagnosis -- Useful, but to whom? -- Brilliant imperfection : stone -- Nuances of Cure. Wishing you less pain -- Wanting cure -- Birthmark -- Cautionary tale -- Body-mind yearning -- Yearning for the peeper pond -- Jostling my anti-cure politics -- Your suicide haunts me -- Brilliant imperfection : shells -- Structure of Cure. The medical-industrial complex -- A far-reaching network -- Troubled and troubling body-minds -- Variations on cure -- Skin lighteners and hot springs -- Brilliant imperfection : hermit crabs -- How Cure Works. Cure just around the corner -- Charity events -- Shifting technologies -- A pharmaceutical history of eflornithine -- Brilliant imperfection : rolling -- At the Center of Cure. Carrie Buck I : yearning -- Carrie Buck II : torrent of history -- Carrie Buck III : feebleminded -- Lives reduced to case files -- Living with Monkey -- Schizophrenia -- Brilliant imperfection : myrtle -- Moving Through Cure. Choosing disability -- Airports and cornfields -- Interdependence -- Wanting a flat chest -- Gender identity disorder -- Claiming ourselves -- Brilliant imperfection : drag queen -- Impacts of Cure. Endless questions -- Ashley's father -- Resisting intelligence -- Feeling broken -- Being fixed -- Shame and pride -- Brilliant imperfection : survival notes -- Promise of Cure. Normal and natural -- Finding wholeness -- Gender transition -- Bullied -- A maze of contradictions -- Mama, what will you swear? -- Walking in the prairie again -- Brilliant imperfection: cycling

Control code

ocn946461709

Dimensions

24 cm

Extent

xxi, 218 pages

Isbn

9780822362760

Lccn

2016030259

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• n

Record ID

u295769

Specific material designation

regular print

System control number

(OCoLC)946461709