Curative violence : rehabilitating disability, gender, and sexuality in modern Korea
By: Kim, Eunjung
Language: English Publisher: United States of America -- Duke University Press -- 2017Description: xii, 300pISBN: 9780822362883Subject(s): Social science | Social problems | Physical disabilities | Political science | Sociology of disabilityDDC classification: 362.4095195 KIM/C Summary:
Taking disability theory out of a Western context, Eunjung Kim questions the assumptions that treating disabilities with cure represents a universal good by examining the manifestations of violence that accompany medical and nonmedical cures in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Korea.
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*Unmothering disability
*Cure by proxy
*Violence as a way of loving
*Uninhabiting family
*Curing virginity
Taking disability theory out of a Western context, Eunjung Kim questions the assumptions that treating disabilities with cure represents a universal good by examining the manifestations of violence that accompany medical and nonmedical cures in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Korea.