"Offering insight into the compelling history of people with
disabilities, this is one of the earliest accounts written by
someone with an actual disability rather than by an observer or
educator."
"--Library Journal"
"A brief but fascinating glimpse into the role of women,
religion, disability and notions of the self in early 19th-century
France."
--"Publishers Weekly"
"Both Husson's autobiographical writing and Kudlick's and
Weygand's short social history of the blight of the blind in
nineteenth-century France will interest anyone whose work or
intellectual interests lie in the field of modern disability
studies."
-- "H-Net Reviews"
In the 1820s, several years before Braille was invented,
Therese-Adele Husson, a young blind woman from provincial France,
wrote an audacious manifesto about her life, French society, and
her hopes for the future. Through extensive research and scholarly
detective work, authors Catherine Kudlick and Zina Weygand have
rescued this intriguing woman and the remarkable story of her life
and tragic death from obscurity, giving readers a rare look into a
world recorded by an unlikely historical figure.
Reflections is one of the earliest recorded manifestations of
group solidarity among people with the same disability, advocating
self-sufficiency and independence on the part of blind people,
encouraging education for all blind children, and exploring gender
roles for both men and women. Resolutely defying the sense of
"otherness" which pervades discourse about the disabled, Husson
instead convinces us that that blindness offers a fresh and
important perspective on both history and ourselves.
In rescuing this important historical accountand recreating the
life of an obscure but potent figure, Weygand and Kudlick have
awakened a perspective that transcends time and which, ultimately,
remaps our inherent ideas of physical sensibility
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