Sale!

Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism by Elsa 9781982152413 1982152419

Name: Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism by Elsa 9781982152413 1982152419
SKU: EB-36327218
Availability: InStock

Original price was: $50.00.Current price is: $25.00.

Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism Elsa Sjunneson Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Elsa Sjunneson

ISBN(s): 9781982152413, 1982152419

Edition: ebook

File Details: EPUB, 3.11 MB

Year: 2021

Language: English

SKU: EB-36327218 Categories: Politics & Philosophy Biography & Autobiography - Historical, Society Tags: Being Seen, Deafblind, Elsa Sjunneson, End Ableism, Woman

Description

Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism Elsa Sjunneson – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781982152413,1982152419

Product details:

ISBN 10: 1982152419
ISBN 13:9781982152413
Author: Elsa

Being Seen
One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism

A deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else. As a deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Elsa Sjunneson lives at the crossroads of blindness and sight, hearing and deafness—much to the confusion of the world around her. While she cannot see well enough to operate without a guide dog or cane, she can see enough to know when someone is reacting to the visible signs of her blindness and can hear when they’re whispering behind her back. And she certainly knows how wrong our one-size-fits-all definitions of disability can be. As a media studies professor, she’s also seen the full range of blind and deaf portrayals on film, and here she deconstructs their impact, following common tropes through horror, romance, and everything in between. Part memoir, part cultural criticism, part history of the deafblind experience, Being Seen explores how our cultural concept of disability is more myth than fact, and the damage it does to us all.

Table contents:

Chapter 1: The Building Blocks of Blindness
Chapter 2: We Need to Talk About Helen
Chapter 3: Language Acquisition Through the Sound Barrier and Other Deafblind Mysteries
Chapter 4: My Body and Other Histories
Chapter 5: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Identify Ableism
Chapter 6: Your Vision of Blindness Is Impaired
Chapter 7: How I Learned to Drive, Play with Swords, and Other Things You Shouldn’t Do at Home
Chapter 8: Yes, Virginia, Even Blind Men Can Be Assholes
Chapter 9: The Call Is Coming from Inside the House
Chapter 10: Cripping My Dance Card
Chapter 11: Coming Out of the Closet
Chapter 12: There Are No Blind Moms on TV
Chapter 13: I Am Not a Teaching Tool
Chapter 14: Welcome to the Cyberpunk Future, It’s in My Ears
Chapter 15: We Have Always Thrived in the Castle
Chapter 16: Cane in One Hand, Protest Sign in the Other
Chapter 17: Hindsight Is 20/20, Except If You’re Me and Then It’s [REDACTED]

People also search:

being seen: one deafblind

how do you communicate with a deafblind person

can deafblind communicate

what is deafblind

being blind deaf and mute