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The Radical Lives of Helen Keller (Paperback)
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The Radical Lives of Helen Keller (Paperback)
Series: The History of Disability
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A political biography that reveals new sides to Helen Keller
Several decades after her death in 1968, Helen Keller remains one
of the most widely recognized women of the twentieth century. But
the fascinating story of her vivid political life-particularly her
interest in radicalism and anti-capitalist activism-has been
largely overwhelmed by the sentimentalized story of her as a young
deaf-blind girl. Keller had many lives indeed. Best known for her
advocacy on behalf of the blind, she was also a member of the
socialist party, an advocate of women's suffrage, a defender of the
radical International Workers of the World, and a supporter of
birth control-and she served as one of the nation's most effective
but unofficial international ambassadors. In spite of all her
political work, though, Keller rarely explored the political
dimensions of disability, adopting beliefs that were often seen as
conservative, patronizing, and occasionally repugnant. Under the
wing of Alexander Graham Bell, a controversial figure in the deaf
community who promoted lip-reading over sign language, Keller
became a proponent of oralism, thereby alienating herself from
others in the deaf community who believed that a rich deaf culture
was possible through sign language. But only by distancing herself
from the deaf community was she able to maintain a public image as
a one-of-a-kind miracle. Using analytic tools and new sources, Kim
E. Nielsen's political biography of Helen Keller has many lives,
teasing out the motivations for and implications of her political
and personal revolutions to reveal a more complex and intriguing
woman than the Helen Keller we thought we knew.
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