Kim, Eunjung

Curative violence : rehabilitating disability, gender, and sexuality in modern Korea - United States of America -- Duke University Press -- 2017 - xii, 300p.

*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.

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Social science
Social problems
Physical disabilities
Political science
Sociology of disability

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