Sight Unseen : Gender and Race Through Blind Eyes / / Ellyn Kaschak

• Autore: Kaschak Ellyn
• Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : Columbia University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (207 p.)
• Disciplina: 305
• Soggetto topico: Discrimination; Blind; Blindness - Social aspects; Racism; Sex discrimination; Sex differences (Psychology)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter one. The Eye of the Beholder -- Chapter two. Blind Date -- Chapter three. The Color of Blindness -- Chapter four. Hiding in Plain Sight -- Chapter five. Looks Are Everything -- Chapter six. Three's Company -- Chapter seven. Talking Black: The Color Code -- Chapter eight. Double Blind: Abigail -- Chapter nine. Double Blind: Gabrielle -- Chapter ten. Blind Citizenship Classes: The Mirror Does Not Reflect -- Chapter eleven. Not Seeing Is Also Believing -- Further readings -- Works cited -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sight Unseen
• ISBN: 0-231-53953-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817894803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II