Being Seen - One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism (Paperback)

A Deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else. As a Deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Elsa Sjunneson lives at the crossroads of blindness and sight, hearing and deafness-much to the confusion of the world around her. While she cannot see well enough to operate without a guide dog or cane, she can see enough to know when someone is reacting to the visible signs of her blindness and can hear when they're whispering behind her back. And she certainly knows how wrong our one-size-fits-all definitions of disability can be. As a media studies professor, she's also seen the full range of blind and deaf portrayals on film, and here she deconstructs their impact, following common tropes through horror, romance, and everything in between. Part memoir, part cultural criticism, part history of the Deafblind experience, Being Seen explores how our cultural concept of disability is more myth than fact, and the damage it does to us all.

General

Imprint:	Simon & Schuster
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2022
Authors:	Elsa Sjunneson
Dimensions:	213 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-1-982152-40-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Disability: social aspects Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Coping with personal problems > Coping with disability Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > General Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	1-982152-40-0
Barcode:	9781982152406

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