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Blindness Through the Looking Glass: The Performance of Blindness, Gender, and the Sensory Body (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability) - Hardcover

Buch 32 von 40: Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability

Hammer, Gili

 
9780472074280: Blindness Through the Looking Glass: The Performance of Blindness, Gender, and the Sensory Body (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0472074288 ISBN 13: 9780472074280
Verlag: UNIV OF MICHIGAN PR, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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Verlag
UNIV OF MICHIGAN PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0472074288
ISBN 13 
9780472074280
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
220
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