Borderlands of Blindness / / Beth Omansky.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Omansky, Beth,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Disability in Society
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (229 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 1 Introduction --; Part 1 Exploring Borderlands --; 2 An Insider Approach --; 3 Prejudice and Poverty --; 4 Living Stories: In Their Own Words --; Part 2 Borderlands in a Political Economy --; 5 Education --; 6 The Perils of Rehabilitation --; 7 Work --; Part 3 Social Life Outside, Inside, and Across Borders --; 8 Constructing Blindness --; 9 Being Blind: From the Inside Out --; 10 Identity --; Part 4 Conclusion --; 11 Intersections Along the Border --; 12 Epilogue --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Book
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781626370920; 9783110784251
• DOI: 10.1515/9781626370920
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Beth Omansky.

A person may be legally blind, yet not "blind enough" to qualify for social services. Beth Omansky explores the lives of legally blind people to show how society responds to those who don’t fit neatly into the disabled/nondisabled binary. Probing the experience of education, rehabilitation, and work, as well as the more intimate spheres of religion, family, and romantic relationships, her frank and theoretically sophisticated portrait of the legally blind experience offers an original insight into our understanding of the social construction of disability.