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Brilliant Imperfection
Grappling with Cure
Eli Clare
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Brilliant Imperfection
Grappling with Cure
Eli Clare
About This Book
In Brilliant Imperfection Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cureâthe deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed. Cure serves many purposes. It saves lives, manipulates lives, and prioritizes some lives over others. It provides comfort, makes profits, justifies violence, and promises resolution to body-mind loss. Clare grapples with this knot of contradictions, maintaining that neither an anti-cure politics nor a pro-cure worldview can account for the messy, complex relationships we have with our body-minds. The stories he tells range widely, stretching from disability stereotypes to weight loss surgery, gender transition to skin lightening creams. At each turn, Clare weaves race, disability, sexuality, class, and gender together, insisting on the nonnegotiable value of body-mind difference. Into this mix, he adds environmental politics, thinking about ecosystem loss and restoration as a way of delving more deeply into cure. 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 the same time.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Writing a Mosaic
- A Note on Reading This Book: Thinking about Trigger Warnings
- Brilliant Imperfection: White Pines
- 1. Ideology of Cure
- 2. Violence of Cure
- 3. In Tandem with Cure
- 4. Nuances of Cure
- 5. Structure of Cure
- 6. How Cure Works
- 7. At the Center of Cure
- 8. Moving through Cure
- 9. Impacts of Cure
- 10. Promise of Cure
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index