Sight Unseen: Gender and Race Through Blind Eyes

Sight Unseen: Gender and Race Through Blind Eyes
ISBN-10
0231539533
ISBN-13
9780231539531
Series
Sight Unseen
Category
Psychology
Pages
224
Language
English
Published
2015-04-28
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Author
Ellyn Kaschak

Description

Sight Unseen reveals the cultural and biological realities of race, gender, and sexual orientation from the perspective of the blind. Through ten case studies and dozens of interviews, Ellyn Kaschak taps directly into the phenomenology of race, gender, and sexual orientation among blind individuals, along with the everyday epistemology of vision. Kaschak's work reveals not only how the blind create systems of meaning out of cultural norms but also how cultural norms inform our conscious and unconscious interactions with others regardless of our physical ability to see.

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