Brilliant Imperfection

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Brilliant Imperfection PDF book is popular Social Science book written by Eli Clare. The book was released by Unknown in 03 February 2017 with total hardcover pages 240. 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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Brilliant Imperfection PDF book is popular Social Science book written by Eli Clare. The book was released by Unknown in 03 February 2017 with total hardcover pages 240. 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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Brilliant Imperfection PDF book is popular Social Science book written by Eli Clare. The book was released by Duke University Press in 13 January 2017 with total hardcover pages 240. 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

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Exile and Pride PDF book is popular Social Science book written by Eli Clare. The book was released by Duke University Press in 15 July 2015 with total hardcover pages 240. First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride is essential to the history and future of disability politics. Eli Clare's revelatory writing about his experiences as a white disabled genderqueer activist/writer established him as one of the leading writers on the intersections of queerness and disability and permanently changed the landscape of disability politics and queer liberation. With a poet's devotion to truth and an activist's demand for justice, Clare deftly unspools the multiple histories from which our ever-evolving

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The Marrow's Telling PDF book is popular Social Science book written by Eli Clare. The book was released by Homofactus Press, L.L.C. in 06 October 2022 with total hardcover pages 240. A collection of poetry and prose, The Marrow's Telling spans fifteen years, exploring how bodies carry history and identity over time. Embracing contradiction and repetition, this work maps itself around embodied experiences of disability, race, gender transgression and transition, family violence, and sexuality.

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Disability Politics & Theory PDF book is popular Social Science book written by A. J. Withers. The book was released by Fernwood Books Limited in 06 October 2022 with total hardcover pages 240. "An accessible introduction to disability studies, Disability Politics and Theory provides a concise survey of disability history, exploring the concept of disability as it has been conceived from the late 19th century to the present. Further, A.J. Withers examines when, how and why new categories of disability are created and describes how capitalism benefits from and enforces disabled people's oppression. Critiquing the model that currently dominates the discipline, the social model of disability, this book offers an alternative: the

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Fables and Futures PDF book is popular Social Science book written by George Estreich. The book was released by MIT Press in 19 March 2019 with total hardcover pages 240. How new biomedical technologies—from prenatal testing to gene-editing techniques—require us to imagine who counts as human and what it means to belong. From next-generation prenatal tests, to virtual children, to the genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9, new biotechnologies grant us unprecedented power to predict and shape future people. That power implies a question about belonging: which people, which variations, will we welcome? How will we square new biotech advances with the real but fragile gains for people with disabilities—especially

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Feminist, Queer, Crip PDF book is popular Social Science book written by Alison Kafer. The book was released by Indiana University Press in 16 May 2013 with total hardcover pages 240. In Feminist, Queer, Crip Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a pre-determined limit. She juxtaposes theories, movements, and identities such as environmental justice, reproductive justice, cyborg theory, transgender politics, and disability that are typically discussed in isolation and envisions new possibilities for crip futures and feminist/