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BOOK
Title Being seen : one deafblind woman's fight to end ableism / Elsa Sjunneson
Imprint New York, NY : Tiller Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2021
©2021

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Edition First Tiller Press hardcover edition
Descript xi, 273 pages 24 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references
"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
Subject Sjunneson, Elsa, 1985-
Dövblinda personer
Personer med funktionsnedsättning
Personer med funktionsnedsättning -- attityder till
Deafblind people.
Deafblind women.
Discrimination against people with disabilities.
People with disabilities.
People with disabilities in mass media.
United States.
Biografier
Självbiografier
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Classmark 362.4/1092
ISBN/ISSN 9781982152376 hardcover
1982152370 hardcover
9781982152413
electronic book 9781982152413
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