Being seen : one deafblind woman's fight to end ableism / Elsa Sjunneson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sjunneson, Elsa, 1985- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sjunneson, Elsa, 1985-.

Sjunneson, Elsa.

Deafblind people--United States--Biography.

Deafblind people.

Deafblind women--United States--Biography.

Deafblind women.

People with disabilities.

People with disabilities in mass media.

Discrimination against people with disabilities.

Visually Impaired Persons.

Persons With Hearing Impairments.

Disabled Persons.

Mass Media.

Social Discrimination.

Deaf-Blind Disorders.

Women.

Humans.

United States.

Medical Subjects:

Visually Impaired Persons.

Persons With Hearing Impairments.

Disabled Persons.

Mass Media.

Social Discrimination.

Deaf-Blind Disorders.

Women.

Humans.

United States.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 273 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Tiller Press hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Tiller Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2021.

Summary:

"A deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else"-- Provided by publisher.

With partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Sjunneson lives at the crossroads of blindness and sight, hearing and deafness. 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. As a media studies professor, she has also seen the full range of blind and deaf portrayals on film. Here she deconstructs their impact, following common tropes through horror, romance, and everything in between. In doing so, she explores how our cultural concept of disability is more myth than fact-- and the damage it does to us all. -- adapted from jacket

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Building Blocks of Blindness: Hi, I'm Elsa

2. We Need to Talk About Helen: Breaking Gibson's Mythology

3. Language Acquisition Through the Sound Barrier and Other Deafblind Mysteries

4. My Body and Other Histories

5. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Identify Ableism: A Lesson in Radiation Poisoning

6. Your Vision of Blindness Is Impaired: The Monolith of Blindness in Media

7. How I Learned to Drive, Play with Swords, and Other Things You Shouldn't Do at Home

8. Yes, Virginia, Even Blind Men Can Be Assholes: The Intersection of Disability and Gender

9. The Call Is Coming from Inside the House: Surviving Ableist Violence Through the Lens of Horror

10. Cripping My Dance Card: Required Reading for People Who Want to Date Me (But My Relatives Should Skip to Chapter 11)

11. Coming Out of the Closet: But Only If It's ADA Compliant

12. There Are No Blind Moms on TV: Disability and Parenthood Stigma

13.1. Am Not a Teaching Tool: Medicalizing the Disabled Body

14. Welcome to the Cyberpunk Future, It's in My Ears: Disability and Science Fiction

15. We Have Always Thrived in the Castle: Defying Ableism to Become Yourself

16. Cane in One Hand, Protest Sign in the Other: A View of Police Brutality and Disability

17. Hindsight Is 20/20, Except If You're Me and Then It's [REDACTED].

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Sjunneson, Elsa. Being seen

ISBN:

9781982152376

1982152370

OCLC:

1245960160