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Blindness Through the Looking Glass: The Performance of Blindness, Gender, and the Sensory Body - Couverture souple

Livre 32 sur 40: Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability

Hammer, Gili

 
9780472054282: Blindness Through the Looking Glass: The Performance of Blindness, Gender, and the Sensory Body
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ISBN 10 : 0472054287 ISBN 13 : 9780472054282
Editeur : The University of Michigan Press, 2019

Synopsis

Modern Western culture is saturated with images, imprinting visual standards of concepts such as beauty and femininity onto our collective consciousness. Blindness Through the Looking Glass examines how gender and femininity are performed and experienced in everyday life by women who do not rely on sight as their dominant mode of perception, identifying the multiple senses involved in the formation of gender identity within social interactions. Challenging visuality as the dominant mode to understand gender, social performance, and visual culture, the book offers an ethnographic investigation of blindness (and sight) as a human condition, putting both blindness and vision “on display” by discussing people’s auditory, tactile, and olfactory experiences as well as vision and sight, and by exploring ways that individuals perform blindness and “sightedness” in their everyday lives. Based on in-depth interviews with 40 blind women in Israel and anthropological fieldwork, the book investigates the social construction and daily experience of blindness in a range of domains. Uniquely, the book brings together blind symbolism with the everyday experiences of blind and sighted individuals, joining in mutual conversation the fields of disability studies, visual culture, anthropology of the senses, and gender studies.

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À propos de l'auteur

Gili Hammer is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and The Program in Cultural Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Éditeur
The University of Michigan Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0472054287
ISBN 13 
9780472054282
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
220
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Personne responsable
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