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Author : Gili Hammer
Publisher : Corporealities: Discourses of
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780472054282
Challenges visuality as the dominant mode through which we understand gender, social performance, and visual culture
Author : Wei Yu Wayne Tan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472220434
While the loss of sight—whether in early modern Japan or now—may be understood as a disability, blind people in the Tokugawa period (1600–1868) could thrive because of disability. The blind of the era were prominent across a wide range of professions, and through a strong guild structure were able to exert contractual monopolies over certain trades. Blind in Early Modern Japan illustrates the breadth and depth of those occupations, the power and respect that accrued to the guild members, and the lasting legacy of the Tokugawa guilds into the current moment. The book illustrates why disability must be assessed within a particular society’s social, political, and medical context, and also the importance of bringing medical history into conversation with cultural history. A Euro-American-centric disability studies perspective that focuses on disability and oppression, the author contends, risks overlooking the unique situation in a non-Western society like Japan in which disability was constructed to enhance blind people’s power. He explores what it meant to be blind in Japan at that time, and what it says about current frameworks for understanding disability.
Author : Edward Wheatley
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472903801
"Bold, deeply learned, and important, offering a provocative thesis that is worked out through legal and archival materials and in subtle and original readings of literary texts. Absolutely new in content and significantly innovative in methodology and argument, Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind offers a cultural geography of medieval blindness that invites us to be more discriminating about how we think of geographies of disability today." ---Christopher Baswell, Columbia University "A challenging, interesting, and timely book that is also very well written . . . Wheatley has researched and brought together a leitmotiv that I never would have guessed was so pervasive, so intriguing, so worthy of a book." ---Jody Enders, University of California, Santa Barbara Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind presents the first comprehensive exploration of a disability in the Middle Ages, drawing on the literature, history, art history, and religious discourse of England and France. It relates current theories of disability to the cultural and institutional constructions of blindness in the eleventh through fifteenth centuries, examining the surprising differences in the treatment of blind people and the responses to blindness in these two countries. The book shows that pernicious attitudes about blindness were partially offset by innovations and ameliorations---social; literary; and, to an extent, medical---that began to foster a fuller understanding and acceptance of blindness. A number of practices and institutions in France, both positive and negative---blinding as punishment, the foundation of hospices for the blind, and some medical treatment---resulted in not only attitudes that commodified human sight but also inhumane satire against the blind in French literature, both secular and religious. Anglo-Saxon and later medieval England differed markedly in all three of these areas, and the less prominent position of blind people in society resulted in noticeably fewer cruel representations in literature. This book will interest students of literature, history, art history, and religion because it will provide clear contexts for considering any medieval artifact relating to blindness---a literary text, a historical document, a theological treatise, or a work of art. For some readers, the book will serve as an introduction to the field of disability studies, an area of increasing interest both within and outside of the academy. Edward Wheatley is Surtz Professor of Medieval Literature at Loyola University, Chicago.
Author : Melisa S. Mitchell
Publisher : National Library of Poetry
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1575534010
Author : Maria Louisa Charlesworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Religous fiction
ISBN : OXFORD:600061079
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : English periodicals
ISBN : UIUC:30112005650525
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07
Category : Blind
ISBN : UOM:39015064075453
Author : Terry Rowden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015080747416
How America has constructed the figure of the visually impaired black performer over the last 150 years
Author : Jeff Cohen,Norman Solomon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015034412455
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social service
ISBN : UCSC:32106019293247
Author : Jane M. Everson
Publisher : Brookes Publishing Company
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015033996771
By using person-centered planning, service providers and family members can incorporate an individual's strengths, needs, and goals into a blueprint for life in the community.
Author : Peter Watts
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429955195
Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Jonathan Auxier
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780143185727
Overflowing with wit and invention, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes is the beguiling tale of a ten-year-old blind orphan who has been schooled in a life of thievery by his brutal master, Mr. Seamus. One fateful afternoon, as he's picking the pockets of townspeople enraptured by a travelling haberdasher, he "discovers" (steals) a box of magical eyes. When he tries on the first pair, he is instantly transported to the island at the top of the world, where he meets the maker of the eyes, Professor Cake. The Professor gives Peter a choice: travel to the mysterious Vanished Kingdom and try to rescue a people in need ... or return back to his master and a life of crime. Peter chooses wisely, and together with Sir Tode, a knight errant who has been turned into a rather unfortunate combination of human, horse and cat by a grumpy witch, he embarks on an unforgettable adventure in a book destined to become a classic.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Blind
ISBN : UOM:39015075632128
Author : Judit Brody
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015051579434
Sunspots are dark areas on the Sun's surface, some as large as 50,000 miles in diameter. This text charts the history of our efforts to understand them, and the lives and quarrels of those astronomers who first charted their mysterious patterns and whose records are still of vital importance.