Kaschak Sight Unseen

Gender and Race Through Blind Eyes
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-53953-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reveals the cultural and biological realities of race, gender, and sexual orientation from the perspective of the blind.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaschak, Ellyn

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
1. The Eye of the Beholder
2. Blind Date
3. The Color of Blindness
4. Hiding in Plain Sight
5. Looks Are Everything
6. Three's Company
7. Talking Black: The Color Code
8. Double Blind: Abigail
9. Double Blind: Gabrielle
10. Blind Citizenship Classes: The Mirror Does Not Reflect
11. Not Seeing Is Also Believing
Further Readings
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ellyn Kaschak is professor emerita of psychology at San Jose State University, as well as the editor of the journal Women and Therapy. Kaschak is one of the founders of the field of feminist psychology, which she has practiced and taught since 1972. Her many scholarly works, including the groundbreaking Engendered Lives: A New Psychology of Women's Experience, have helped define the field. Kaschak is is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning psychologist, writer, and teacher, widely known as a speaker, human rights advocate, and an expert on women and gender.