Book review: Blindness Through the Looking Glass: the performance of blindness, gender and the sensory body by Gili Hammer

Healey, Devon (2020) Book review: Blindness Through the Looking Glass: the performance of blindness, gender and the sensory body by Gili Hammer. LSE Review of Books (29 May 2020). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

In Blindness Through the Looking Glass: The Performance of Blindness, Gender and the Sensory Body, Gili Hammer draws on the first-person narratives of 40 blind women in Israel and ethnographic fieldwork to challenge visuality as the dominant mode of understanding and experiencing gender identity, visual culture and the sensory body. Devon Healey recommends this book as an essential resource for Women’s and Gender Studies, Disability Studies and, it is her hope, Blind Studies.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Date Deposited:	17 Jun 2020 12:15
Last Modified:	16 Sep 2023 00:24
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/104867

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