Borderlands of blindness / Beth Omansky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Omansky, Beth, author.

Series:

Disability in society.

Disability in society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disability studies.

Blind.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A person may be legally blind, yet not "blind enough" to qualify for social services. Beth Omansky explores the lives of legally blind people to show how society responds to those who don’t fit neatly into the disabled/nondisabled binary. Probing the experience of education, rehabilitation, and work, as well as the more intimate spheres of religion, family, and romantic relationships, her frank and theoretically sophisticated portrait of the legally blind experience offers an original insight into our understanding of the social construction of disability.

Contents:

Introduction

Part 1 : Exploring borderlands

An insider approach

Prejudice and poverty

Living stories : in their own words

Borderlands in a political economy

Part 2 : Education

The perils of rehabilitation

Work

Part 3 : Social life outside, inside, and across borders

Constructing blindness

Being blind: from the inside out

Identity

Part 4 : Conclusion

Intersections along the border

Epilogue.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-223) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62637-092-3

OCLC:

1334344649