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PublisherDuke University Press

ISBN-100822362872

ISBN-139780822362876

eBay Product ID (ePID)221661500

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Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameBrilliant Imperfection : Grappling with Cure

SubjectPeople with Disabilities, Healing, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies

Publication Year2017

TypeTextbook

AuthorEli Clare

Subject AreaHealth & Fitness, Social Science

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight12 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2016-030259

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsAs lawmakers present some lives as worth less than others, we need voices like Clare's: the voices of those who see worth in the most devalued lives but who also recognize that a simple critique of medical technology is inadequate when so many people around the world desperately need access to that technology. Brilliant Imperfection is therefore timely and necessary for our current political moment--and it will prove a critical resource as we seek to create a better world., Brilliant Imperfection is a dazzling work of intellectually rigorous and wildly original thinking that challenges our most deeply held beliefs about the nature of cure, exposing its place in the ideologies of domination. Exquisitely poetic, intensely personal, and highly provocative, the 'messy story' Eli Clare draws us into ranges across a broad and contradictory terrain, revealing all the ways in which how we value mind-body difference is at the very heart of justice., "Vermont has many national treasures living quietly among us, and one of them is Addison County resident Eli Clare. His latest book, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure , is revelatory, a clarion call for changing the medicalized disability narrative of defective brokenness." -- John Killacky Vermont Public Radio " Brilliant Imperfection is a clarion call, for changing the medicalized disability narrative, that of ''defective brokenness,'' that often prevails in U.S. healthcare.... [It] provides empowering answers and guidance-contributing significantly to the evolving discourse on gender, queer, and disability studies." -- John R. Killacky Gay & Lesbian Review " Brilliant Imperfection is an honest, moving, and deeply thoughtful engagement with some of the most difficult and significant questions in disability, queer, and cultural studies. . . . Brilliant Imperfection is sure to become required reading for scholars of disability and queer studies, revealing the multiple, often contradictory meanings and consequences of cure and the importance of work for social justice." -- Laurel Daen H-Disability, H-Net Reviews " Brilliant Imperfection is powerfully intersectional in its approach to body-mind difference: disability, as an identity, process, and means of interacting with the world, cannot be disentangled from other facets of identity like race, sexuality, class, and gender." -- Travis Lau Wordgathering "This book will quickly become a classic, cited for Clare''s careful analogies that examine cure through the notion of ecosystem restoration; his harsh critique of ''case files'' and the work that scholars and artists do with them; and his deeply-nuanced exploration of the shame, grief, loss, and yearning in relation to bodymind difference. Brilliant Imperfection is beautifully written, with the insight and poetic clarity that readers have come to expect from Clare." -- Ryan Cartwright Disability Studies Quarterly "Clare''s Brilliant Imperfection provides a well-researched, thoroughly thought-out project that grapples with multiple relevant discourses surrounding disability and PwDs. In highlighting historical, personal, and anecdotal evidence, Clare''s text is an articulate, poignant narrative - a mosaic of stories, histories and experiences - that invites much debate and analysis." -- Heather Lacey Journal of Gender Studies " Brilliant Imperfection is a provocation--one that spotlights how crucial disability studies continues to be, particularly as scholars, activists, and artists make room for more nuanced conversations about rehabilitation, cure, and diagnosis." -- Julie Passanante Elman Feminist Formations "As lawmakers present some lives as worth less than others, we need voices like Clare''s: the voices of those who see worth in the most devalued lives but who also recognize that a simple critique of medical technology is inadequate when so many people around the world desperately need access to that technology. Brilliant Imperfection is therefore timely and necessary for our current political moment--and it will prove a critical resource as we seek to create a better world." -- Julie Avril Minich QED "Accessible and poetic. Brilliant Imperfection will be valuable to students in introductory medical anthropology courses as well as anthropology courses on the body and human-nature interactions." -- Michele Friedner Medical Anthropology Quarterly "[ Brilliant Imperfection ] wasn''t a how-to on overcoming grief and injury. It was permission to be who the accident made me: a disabled dyke. It was a permission to rage against the abelist and lesbiphobic shame I''d internalized. Clare was the only person who told me my worth was not dependent on my ability to get better or to disappear my pain. I cried as I read and re-read." -- Sara Youngblood Gregory Vice, Clare's Brilliant Imperfection provides a well-researched, thoroughly thought-out project that grapples with multiple relevant discourses surrounding disability and PwDs. In highlighting historical, personal, and anecdotal evidence, Clare's text is an articulate, poignant narrative - a mosaic of stories, histories and experiences - that invites much debate and analysis., Brilliant Imperfection is an honest, moving, and deeply thoughtful engagement with some of the most difficult and significant questions in disability, queer, and cultural studies. . . . Brilliant Imperfection is sure to become required reading for scholars of disability and queer studies, revealing the multiple, often contradictory meanings and consequences of cure and the importance of work for social justice., Vermont has many national treasures living quietly among us, and one of them is Addison County resident Eli Clare. His latest book, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure , is revelatory, a clarion call for changing the medicalized disability narrative of defective brokenness., Brilliant Imperfection is powerfully intersectional in its approach to body-mind difference: disability, as an identity, process, and means of interacting with the world, cannot be disentangled from other facets of identity like race, sexuality, class, and gender., Brilliant Imperfection is a provocation--one that spotlights how crucial disability studies continues to be, particularly as scholars, activists, and artists make room for more nuanced conversations about rehabilitation, cure, and diagnosis., [Brilliant Imperfection] wasn't a how-to on overcoming grief and injury. It was permission to be who the accident made me: a disabled dyke. It was a permission to rage against the abelist and lesbiphobic shame I'd internalized. Clare was the only person who told me my worth was not dependent on my ability to get better or to disappear my pain. I cried as I read and re-read., Accessible and poetic. Brilliant Imperfection will be valuable to students in introductory medical anthropology courses as well as anthropology courses on the body and human-nature interactions., Eli Clare's Brilliant Imperfection effortlessly twines history and memory, embodiment and document to bring the reader into a complex and deeply rooted dance with and among bodies, dis/ability, environment, power, medicine, love, and fear. This is theory and politics carefully contextualized, intimately experienced, brought forth with great heart, thoughtful scholarship, and fierce intellect., This book will quickly become a classic, cited for Clare's careful analogies that examine cure through the notion of ecosystem restoration; his harsh critique of 'case files' and the work that scholars and artists do with them; and his deeply-nuanced exploration of the shame, grief, loss, and yearning in relation to bodymind difference. Brilliant Imperfection is beautifully written, with the insight and poetic clarity that readers have come to expect from Clare., Brilliant Imperfection is a clarion call, for changing the medicalized disability narrative, that of 'defective brokenness,' that often prevails in U.S. healthcare.... [It] provides empowering answers and guidance-contributing significantly to the evolving discourse on gender, queer, and disability studies., Brilliant Imperfection is a dazzling work of intellectually rigorous and wildly original thinking that challenges our most deeply held beliefs about the nature of cure, exposing its place in the ideologies of domination. Exquisitely poetic, intensely personal and highly provocative, the 'messy story' Eli Clare draws us into ranges across a broad and contradictory terrain, revealing all the ways in which how we value mind-body difference is at the very heart of justice., [ Brilliant Imperfection ] wasn't a how-to on overcoming grief and injury. It was permission to be who the accident made me: a disabled dyke. It was a permission to rage against the abelist and lesbiphobic shame I'd internalized. Clare was the only person who told me my worth was not dependent on my ability to get better or to disappear my pain. I cried as I read and re-read., "Vermont has many national treasures living quietly among us, and one of them is Addison County resident Eli Clare. His latest book, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure , is revelatory, a clarion call for changing the medicalized disability narrative of defective brokenness." -- John Killacky Vermont Public Radio " Brilliant Imperfection is a clarion call, for changing the medicalized disability narrative, that of ''defective brokenness,'' that often prevails in U.S. healthcare.... [It] provides empowering answers and guidance-contributing significantly to the evolving discourse on gender, queer, and disability studies." -- John R. Killacky Gay & Lesbian Review " Brilliant Imperfection is an honest, moving, and deeply thoughtful engagement with some of the most difficult and significant questions in disability, queer, and cultural studies. . . . Brilliant Imperfection is sure to become required reading for scholars of disability and queer studies, revealing the multiple, often contradictory meanings and consequences of cure and the importance of work for social justice." -- Laurel Daen H-Disability, H-Net Reviews " Brilliant Imperfection is powerfully intersectional in its approach to body-mind difference: disability, as an identity, process, and means of interacting with the world, cannot be disentangled from other facets of identity like race, sexuality, class, and gender." -- Travis Lau Wordgathering "This book will quickly become a classic, cited for Clare''s careful analogies that examine cure through the notion of ecosystem restoration; his harsh critique of ''case files'' and the work that scholars and artists do with them; and his deeply-nuanced exploration of the shame, grief, loss, and yearning in relation to bodymind difference. Brilliant Imperfection is beautifully written, with the insight and poetic clarity that readers have come to expect from Clare." -- Ryan Cartwright Disability Studies Quarterly "Clare''s Brilliant Imperfection provides a well-researched, thoroughly thought-out project that grapples with multiple relevant discourses surrounding disability and PwDs. In highlighting historical, personal, and anecdotal evidence, Clare''s text is an articulate, poignant narrative - a mosaic of stories, histories and experiences - that invites much debate and analysis." -- Heather Lacey Journal of Gender Studies " Brilliant Imperfection is a provocation--one that spotlights how crucial disability studies continues to be, particularly as scholars, activists, and artists make room for more nuanced conversations about rehabilitation, cure, and diagnosis." -- Julie Passanante Elman Feminist Formations "As lawmakers present some lives as worth less than others, we need voices like Clare''s: the voices of those who see worth in the most devalued lives but who also recognize that a simple critique of medical technology is inadequate when so many people around the world desperately need access to that technology. Brilliant Imperfection is therefore timely and necessary for our current political moment--and it will prove a critical resource as we seek to create a better world." -- Julie Avril Minich QED "Accessible and poetic. Brilliant Imperfection will be valuable to students in introductory medical anthropology courses as well as anthropology courses on the body and human-nature interactions." -- Michele Friedner Medical Anthropology Quarterly "[Brilliant Imperfection] wasn''t a how-to on overcoming grief and injury. It was permission to be who the accident made me: a disabled dyke. It was a permission to rage against the abelist and lesbiphobic shame I''d internalized. Clare was the only person who told me my worth was not dependent on my ability to get better or to disappear my pain. I cried as I read and re-read." -- Sara Youngblood Gregory Vice

Dewey Decimal305.908

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments xi Introduction: Writing a Mosaic xv A Note on Reading This Book: Thinking about Trigger Warnings xix Brilliant Imperfection: White Pines 1 1. Ideology of Cure 7 Brilliant Imperfection: Twitches and Tremors 19 2. Violence of Cure 21 Brilliant Imperfection: Maples 33 3. In Tandem with Cure 37 Brlliant Imperfection: Stone 49 4. Nuances of Cure 51 Brilliant Imperfection: Shells 65 5. Structure of Cure 67 Brilliant Imperfection: Hermit Crabs 81 6. How Cure Works 83 Brilliant Imperfection: Rolling 99 7. At the Center of Cure 101 Brilliant Imperfection: Myrtle 125 8. Moving Through Cure 127 Brilliant Imperfection: Drag Queen 147 9. Impacts fo Cure 149 Brilliant Imperfection: Survival Notes 169 10. Promise of Cure 171 Brilliant Imperfection: Cycling 189 Notes 191 Bibliography 201 Index 209

SynopsisDrawing 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberHV1568