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Brilliant Imperfection - Grappling with Cure (Hardcover)
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Brilliant Imperfection - Grappling with Cure (Hardcover)
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In Brilliant Imperfection Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and
critical analysis to explore cure-the 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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