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Dear Subscribers, We hope you might find the following title from Duke University Press of interest: http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/brilliant-imperfection [CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), quality = 75]Brilliant Imperfection Grappling with Cure Eli Clare "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."– Hanne Blank, author of Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality "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 "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 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. Eli Clare is a poet, essayist, activist, and the author of Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation, also published by Duke University Press, and The Marrow's Telling: Words in Motion. He speaks regularly at conferences, community events, and colleges across the United States and Canada about disability, queer and trans identities, and social justice, and his writing has appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies. Clare lives in the Green Mountains of Vermont and can be found online at www.eliclare.com. Duke University Press | | February 2017 | 240pp | | 9780822362876 | PB | £17.99* 20% discount with this code: CSL317BRIM** Free UK postage *Price subject to change. **Offer excludes the Americas. Author and independent bookshop blog - Bookscombined.com<https://bookscombined.com/> Follow us on Twitter @CAP_Ltd<http://twitter.com/#!/CAP_Ltd>, Facebook Combined Academic Publishers<https://business.facebook.com/Combined-Academic-Publishers-196269570500/?business_id=10155394879930501> Sign up to our newsletter email alerts here<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/content/34-subscribe-to-our-newsletter> If you wish to unsubscribe from the list or you know someone who wishes to subscribe to the list go to: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=queerkinship&A=1