Sight Unseen: Gender and Race Through Blind Eyes
Ellyn Kaschak
Abstract
This book 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, the book taps directly into the phenomenology of race, gender, and sexual orientation among blind individuals, along with the everyday epistemology of vision. It 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.
Keywords: blindness, race, gender, sexual orientation, vision, cultural norms
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 | Print ISBN-13: 9780231172905 |
| Published to Columbia Scholarship Online: November 2015 | DOI:10.7312/columbia/9780231172905.001.0001 |
