ISBN:
9780822362876
,
9780822362760
Language:
English
Pages:
xxi, 218 Seiten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Clare, Eli, author Brilliant imperfection
DDC:
305.9/08
Keywords:
People with disabilities
;
Disabilities
;
Healing
;
Popular Work
;
Popular Work
;
Popular Work
;
Behinderung
;
Störung
;
Heilung
;
Transgender
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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