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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Kaschak, Ellyn,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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