Curative Violence
Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea
1st Edition
Published on 6. January 2017
312 pages
978-0-8223-7351-3 (ISBN)
Description
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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Eunjung Kim is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Disability Studies at Syracuse University.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Folded Time and the Presence of Disability 1
1. Unmothering Disability 42
2. Cure by Proxy 81
3. Violence as a Way of Loving 122
4. Uninhabiting Family 166
5. Curing Virginity 197
Conclusion. How to Inhabit the Time Machine with Disability 323
Notes 235
Bibliography 269
Index 285
Introduction. Folded Time and the Presence of Disability 1
1. Unmothering Disability 42
2. Cure by Proxy 81
3. Violence as a Way of Loving 122
4. Uninhabiting Family 166
5. Curing Virginity 197
Conclusion. How to Inhabit the Time Machine with Disability 323
Notes 235
Bibliography 269
Index 285
