I really enjoyed:
Gwaltney, J. L. (1970). The thrice shy cultural accommodation to
blindness and other disasters in a Mexican community. New York, NY:
Columbia University Press.
Nice sociocultural aspect on blindness.
Cheers,
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 12:02 PM, David P. Dillard <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Please try these links for additional sources:
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> http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=blindness&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C39
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> https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=blindness
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> http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/search?q=blindness&t=all&sort=0&g=s
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> http://temple.summon.serialssolutions.com/search?s.cmd=
> setHoldingsOnly(false)&s.fvf=ContentType,Newspaper+
> Article,t&s.q=blindness
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> OR
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> http://tinyurl.com/cgb98gn
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> There is a bit more in the section of my Disabilities Research Guide devoted
> to blindness
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> http://guides.temple.edu/content.php?pid=24338&sid=177446#498739
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> As a matter of fact, I just put these four links from this post into that
> section of my Disabilities Research Guide, so if you should lose this email,
> those links will be there.
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> Sincerely,
> David Dillard
> Temple University
> (215) 204 - 4584
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> http://groups.google.com/group/net-gold?hl=en
> Handouts
> http://tinyurl.com/6pvglb4
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> General Internet & Print Resources
> http://guides.temple.edu/general-internet
> COUNTRIES
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> EMPLOYMENT
> http://guides.temple.edu/EMPLOYMENT
> TOURISM
> http://guides.temple.edu/tourism
> DISABILITIES
> http://guides.temple.edu/DISABILITIES
> INDOOR GARDENING
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndoorGardeningUrban/
> Educator-Gold
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Educator-Gold/
> K12ADMINLIFE
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/K12AdminLIFE/
> The Russell Conwell Learning Center Research Guide:
> THE COLLEGE LEARNING CENTER
> http://tinyurl.com/yae7w79
> Information Literacy
> http://guides.temple.edu/infolit
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> Nina Dillard's Photographs on Net-Gold
> http://tinyurl.com/36qd2o
> and also
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/neemers/
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> Twitter: davidpdillard
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> On Thu, 9 May 2013, LILITH Finkler wrote:
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>> 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)
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>>
>>
>> Alexander, S. H. (1994). Taking Hold: My Journey into Blindness. New York:
>> Macmillan.
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>> Alexander, S. H. (1997). On My Own: The Journey Continues. New York:
>> Farrar, Straus, Giroux.
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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.
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>>
>>
>> Barasch M (2001) Blindness: The history of a mental image in Western
>> thought. London, U.K.: Routledge.
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>>
>>
>> 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 Meaningful Art Education for Blind Individuals. The
>> International Journal of Art & Design Education, 23(3): 326-334.
>>
>> Devlieger P., Renders F., Froyen H. and Wildiers K. (editors)(2006)
>> Blindness and the Multi-sensorial City. Antwerp, Beligium: Garant
>> Publishers.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
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>> Hine, R.V. (1997) Second Sight. Berkeley, California: University of
>> California Press.
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>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> KLEEGE G. (2010) DIALOGUES WITH THE BLIND: LITERARY DEPICTIONS OF
>> BLINDNESS AND VISUAL ART. JOURNAL OF LITERARY & CULTURAL DISABILITY
>> STUDIES, 4 (1): 1-16.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
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>>
>>
>> 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 Books.
>>
>>
>>
>> Magee B. & Milligan M. (1995) On Blindness. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford
>> University Press.
>>
>>
>>
>> Marston J., Golledge R. & Costanzo M. (1997) Investigating Travel
>> Behaviour of Nondriving Blind and Vision Impaired People: The Role of Public
>> Transit. Professional Geographer, 49(2): 235-245.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
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>>
>>
>> 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.
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>>
>>
>> Millar S. (1997) Reading by Touch. London, U.K.: Routledge.
>>
>>
>>
>> Omansky B. (2011) Borderlands of Blindness. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne
>> Rienner Publishers.
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>>
>>
>> Potok, A. (2002) A Matter of Dignity: Changing the World of the Disabled.
>> New York: Bantam.
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>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Rowden T. (2009) The Songs of Blind Folk: African American Musicians and
>> the Cultures of Blindness. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan
>> Press.
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>>
>>
>> Sacks O. (1996) The island of the colour-blind and Cycad Island. London:
>> Picador.
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>>
>>
>> Sandahl C. (2004) Black Man, Blind Man: Disability Identity Politics and
>> Performance. Theatre Journal, 56(4): 579-602.
>>
>>
>>
>> Scadden, L. (2008) Surpassing Expectations: My Life Without Sight.
>> Philadelphia, PA: Xlibris Corporation
>>
>>
>>
>> Scott, Robert A. (1969) The Making of Blind Men. New York: Russell Sage
>> Foundation.
>>
>>
>>
>> Shah, F. (1992) “The Blind Woman, Her Family and Participation in the
>> Community (Rural)”. In Imprinting Our Image: An International Anthology by
>> Women with Disabilities. Charlottetown, P.E.I.: Gynergy Press.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sullivan, T. & Gill D. (1975) If You Could See What I Hear. New York, New
>> York: Signet.
>>
>>
>>
>> Swain J. & French S. (2004) Whose Tragedy: Towards a personal non-tragedy
>> view of disability. In Swain J., French S., Barnes and Thomas (eds.)
>> Disabling Barriers – Enabling Environments. (2nd ed.) Sage. London.
>>
>>
>>
>> TenBroek, J. (1966) The Right to Live in the World: The Disabled in the
>> Law of Torts, California Law Review. 54 (2): 841-919. Available online.
>>
>>
>> http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2940&context=californialawreview
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>>
>>
>> Van Hoven B. and Elzinga M. (2009) ‘Bikes are Such a Nuisance’ - Visually
>> Impaired People Negotiating Public Space in Groningen. European Spatial
>> Research and Policy, 16 (1): 131-144.
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>>
>>
>> Vermeij, G. J. (1998) Privileged Hands: A Scientific Life. New York: W.H.
>> Freeman and Company.
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>> Vreeland, S. (1988) What Love Sees. Thorndike, Maine: Thorndike Press.
>>
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>> Weihenmayer E. (2002) Touch the Top of the World. New York: Penguin Books.
>>
>>
>>
>> White P. (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 Independent Mobility. Urban Studies, 50 (3): 574-586.
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