Eli Clare
Author
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"[In this book, the author] 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. [The author] grapples with this knot of contradictions, maintaining that neither an anti-cure...