Dear Colleagues: I am trying to create a somewhat comprehensive (?) bibliography on social / political aspects of blindness that people / organizations may wish to post online. My goal is to include as many autobiographies by blind people as I can and more generally, to ensure a"balance" between academic and populist material. I see this as a project in progress. If you can think of materials that should be in this bibliography, please let me know and I will add them to this document. At the end of May, I will resend the revised bibliography to the list. Thanks in advance. Lilith
Bibliography on Blindness (post 1960)
Alexander,
S. H. (1994). Taking Hold: My Journey
into Blindness. New York: Macmillan.
Alexander,
S. H. (1997). On My Own: The Journey
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Avalos H.
(2007) “Introducing Sensory Criticism in Biblical Studies: Audiocentricity and
Visiocentricity. “ In Avalos H., Melcher S. & Schipper J. (eds) The Abled Body: Rethinking Disabilities in
Biblical Studies. Atlanta, Georgia: Society of Biblical Literature.
Bar-Yosef E.
(2009) The "Deaf Traveller," the "Blind Traveller," and
Constructions of Disability in Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing. Victorian Review, 35(2): 133-154.
Barasch M
(2001) Blindness: The history of a
mental image in Western thought. London, U.K.: Routledge.
Brace J. (2004)
The Blind African Slave Or Memoirs of
Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace. Madison Wisconsin: University of
Wisconsin Press.
Brace, M.
(1980) Where There`s a Will. London,
U.K.: Souvenir Press.
Brock J.
& Gill D. (1994) More Than Meets the
Eye. New York, New York: Harper Collins.
Browne S.,
Connors D & Stern N. (1985) With the
Power of Each Breath: A Disabled
Women`s
Anthology. San Francisco, California: Cleis
Press.
Carstairs C.
& Kruth S. (2012) Disability and Citizenship in the Life and Fiction of
Jean Little. Social history, 45 (90):
339-359.
Cathain M.O.
(2006) “Blind, But Not to the Hard
Facts of Life”: The Blind Workers’ Struggle in Derry, 1928-1940. Radical
History Review, 94 (Winter 2006): 9-21.
Chambers, D.
(2005) Words in My Hands: A Teacher, A
Deaf-Blind Man, An Unforgettable Journey. Conifer, CO: Ellexa Press.
Cutsforth,
T.D. (1972) The Blind in School and
Society: A Psychological Study. New York, New York: American Foundation for
the Blind.
De Coster K.
and Loots G. (2004) Somewhere In Between Touch and Vision: In Search of a
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Devlieger P.,
Renders F., Froyen H. and Wildiers K. (editors)(2006) Blindness and the Multi-sensorial City. Antwerp, Beligium: Garant
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Eriksson Y
(2003) What is the history of tactile pictures? In Axel E. & Levent N. (Eds.)
Art beyond sight. New York: The
American Foundation for the Blind & Art Education for the Blind.
French, S.
(1991) The Advantages of Visual Impairment: Some physiotherapists' views, New Beacon, 75 (872): 1 - 6.
Hine, R.V.
(1997) Second Sight. Berkeley,
California: University of California Press.
Hocken, S.
(1978) Emma and I: The True and
Inspiring Story of a Young Woman’s Triumphant Search for Sight. New York:
Thomas Congdon Books.
Hull J.
(1990) Touching the rock: An experience
of blindness. London: SPCK
Husson T.
(2001) Reflections: The life and
writings of a young blind woman in post-revolutionary France. New York
University Press. New York.
Kleege G.
(1999) Sight Unseen. New Haven,
Connecticut: Yale University Press.
Kordi G.
(1991) An Iranian Odyssey. London,
England: Serpent’s Tail.
Kuusisto, S.
(1998) Planet of the Blind: A Memoir.
New York: Dell Publishing.
Lash, J. P.
(1980) Helen and Teacher: The Story of
Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy. New York: Delacorte Press.
Little J.
(1987) Little by Little: A Writer’s
Education. Markham, Ontario: Penguin Books.
Lusseyran,
Jacques (1963) And There Was Light:
Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran, Blind Hero of the French Resistance. Edinburgh:
Floris Books.
Lusseyran,
Jacques (1999) Against the Pollution of
the I: selected writings of Jacques Lusseyran. New York, NY: Parabola
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Magee B.
& Milligan M. (1995) On Blindness.
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Mason M.G. (2004) Working
Against the Odds: Stories of Disabled Women`s Work Lives.
Boston, Mass: Northeastern University Press.
Michalko, R.
(2002) The Difference that Disability
Makes. Philadelphia: Temple
University Press.
Michalko,
R. (1999) The Two-In-One: Walking with Smokie, Walking with Blindness.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Michalko, R.
(1998) The Mystery of the Eye and the
Shadow of Blindness. Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press.
Millar S.
(1997) Reading by Touch. London,
U.K.: Routledge.
Omansky B. (2011) Borderlands of Blindness. Boulder,
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Potok, A. (2002) A Matter of Dignity: Changing
the World of the Disabled. New York: Bantam.
Poulson, J. (2002) The Doctor Will Not See You
Now. The Autobiography of a Blind Physician. Ottawa, Canada: Novalis Press.
Resnick , R. (1975) Sun and Shadow. New York:
Atheneum.
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American Musicians and the Cultures of Blindness. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University
of Michigan Press.
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and Cycad Island. London: Picador.
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New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Shah, F. (1992) “The Blind Woman, Her Family and
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Sullivan, T. & Gill D. (1975) If You Could
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Swain J.
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(1966) The Right to Live in the World: The Disabled in the Law of Torts, California Law Review. 54 (2): 841-919. Available
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http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2940&context=californialawreview
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and Elzinga M. (2009) ‘Bikes are Such a Nuisance’ - Visually Impaired People
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Vermeij, G.
J. (1998) Privileged Hands: A Scientific
Life. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company.
Vreeland, S.
(1988) What Love Sees. Thorndike,
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Weihenmayer
E. (2002) Touch the Top of the World.
New York: Penguin Books.
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(2003) Sex Education or How the Blind Became Heterosexual. Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 9(1/2): 133-148.
Worth N.
(2013) Visual Impairment in the City: Young People’s Social Strategies for
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