Blindness Through the Looking Glass: The Performance of Blindness, Gender, and the Sensory Body Hammer Gili
Blindness Through the Looking Glass: The Performance of Blindness, Gender, and the Sensory Body Hammer Gili Modern Western culture is saturated with images, imprinting visual standards of concepts…
Specifikacia Blindness Through the Looking Glass: The Performance of Blindness, Gender, and the Sensory Body Hammer Gili
Blindness Through the Looking Glass: The Performance of Blindness, Gender, and the Sensory Body Hammer Gili
Modern Western culture is saturated with images, imprinting visual standards of concepts such as beauty and femininity onto our collective consciousness. Challenging visuality as the dominant mode to understand gender, social performance, and visual culture, the book offers an ethnographic investigation of blindness (and sight) as a human condition, putting both blindness and vision "on display" by discussing people's auditory, tactile, and olfactory experiences as well as vision and sight, and by exploring ways that individuals perform blindness and "sightedness" in their everyday lives. Blindness Through the Looking Glass 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.
Through the Looking Glass
Through the Looking-Glass