Blindness Through the Looking Glass by Gili Hammer

Blindness Through the Looking Glass by Gili Hammer

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.

Refutes the simplistic division of sight and blindness as separate worlds of meanings … the firsthand narratives of blind women provide a mirror where sighted assumptions are revealed and made clearThe book offers alternative conceptualizations of gender, visual culture, the gaze, and the sensorium, as well as new perspectives on central concepts within qualitative research, such as the researcher's gaze and research observation." - Elaine Gerber, Montclair State University

"I like this book, which investigates sight as well as blindness … a significant contribution to anthropology, disability studies, and women and gender studies, and likely to be required reading in courses in those fields. It is also just a great book to read—by anyone." - Rod Michalko, University of Toronto

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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ISBN 13	9780472074280
ISBN 10	0472074288
Title	Blindness Through the Looking Glass
Author	Gili Hammer
Series	Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	The University of Michigan Press
Year published	2019-10-30
Number of pages	216
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