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Author Kim, Eunjung, 1974- author.

Title Curative violence : rehabilitating disability, gender, and sexuality in modern Korea / Eunjung Kim
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) : illustrations
Contents Unmothering disability -- Cure by proxy -- Violence as a way of loving -- Uninhabiting family -- Curing virginity
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 24, 2017)
Subject People with disabilities -- Care -- Korea (South)
People with disabilities -- Rehabilitation -- Korea (South)
Sociology of disability -- Korea (South)
People with disabilities in mass media.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities
People with disabilities -- Care
People with disabilities in mass media
People with disabilities -- Rehabilitation
Sociology of disability
Korea (South)
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016028135
ISBN 9780822373513
0822373513
Other Titles Rehabilitating disability, gender, and sexuality in modern Korea