Ellyn Kaschak 
Sight Unseen [EPUB ebook] 
Gender and Race Through Blind Eyes

Sight Unseen reveals the cultural and biological realities of race, gender, and sexual orientation from the perspective of the blind. Through ten case studies and dozens of interviews, Ellyn Kaschak taps directly into the phenomenology of race, gender, and sexual orientation among blind individuals, along with the everyday epistemology of vision. Kaschak’s work reveals not only how the blind create systems of meaning out of cultural norms but also how cultural norms inform our conscious and unconscious interactions with others regardless of our physical ability to see.

Table of Content

Acknowledgments
1. The Eye of the Beholder
2. Blind Date
3. The Color of Blindness
4. Hiding in Plain Sight
5. Looks Are Everything
6. Three’s Company
7. Talking Black: The Color Code
8. Double Blind: Abigail
9. Double Blind: Gabrielle
10. Blind Citizenship Classes: The Mirror Does Not Reflect
11. Not Seeing Is Also Believing
Further Readings
Works Cited
Index

About the author

Ellyn Kaschak is professor emerita of psychology at San Jose State University, as well as the editor of the journal
Women and Therapy. Kaschak is one of the founders of the field of feminist psychology, which she has practiced and taught since 1972. Her many scholarly works, including the groundbreaking
Engendered Lives: A New Psychology of Women’s Experience, have helped define the field. Kaschak is is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning psychologist, writer, and teacher, widely known as a speaker, human rights advocate, and an expert on women and gender.