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11%OFFEunjung Kim - Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea - 9780822362883 - V9780822362883
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Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea

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Description for Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 312 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; HBJF; JFFE; JFFG; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 431.
In Curative Violence Eunjung Kim examines what the social and material investment in curing illnesses and disabilities tells us about the relationship between disability and Korean nationalism. Kim uses the concept of curative violence to question the representation of cure as a universal good and to understand how nonmedical and medical cures come with violent effects that are not only symbolic but also physical. Writing disability theory in a transnational context, Kim tracks the shifts from the 1930s to the present in the ways that disabled bodies and narratives of cure have been represented in Korean folktales, novels, visual culture, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822362883
SKU
V9780822362883
Shipping Time
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About Eunjung Kim
Eunjung Kim is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Disability Studies at Syracuse University.

Reviews for Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea
"In this brilliant and necessary book, Eunjung Kim analyzes the deployment of illness and disability in modern Korea, carefully tracing how cure and rehabilitation are used in the service of the nation. Kim's concepts of "curative violence" and "cure by proxy" describe the violent effects of cure and rehabilitation broadly defined, revealing the integral and mutually constitutive role of gender, ... Read more

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