the performance of blindness, gender, and the sensory body
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hammer, Gili
- Creator
- Kleege, Georgina > (forew.)
- Publish Year
- 2019
- Shelfmark
- NO 3 2019
- Thesaurus
- vrouwelijkheid, vrouwbeelden, normen, identiteit, dagelijks leven, gehandicapten, Israël
- Description
- This book explores how gender and femininity are performed and experienced in everyday life by blind and sighted women. Challenging visuality as the dominant mode to understand gender, social performance and visual culture, the author discusses both blind and sighted people’s auditory, tactile and olfactory experiences and investigates the ways they perform blindness and “sightedness” in their everyday lives. Based on in-depth interviews with 40 blind women in Israel and anthropological fieldwork, the book investigates the social construction and daily experience of blindness in a range of domains.