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The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor
An embodied introduction -- 1. Community, controversy, and compromise: The terminology of visual impairment -- 2. Character designation: Normate reductionism and nominal displacement -- 3. Come-to-bed eyes: Ophthalmocentrism, ocularcentrism, and...
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Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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An embodied introduction -- 1. Community, controversy, and compromise: The terminology of visual impairment -- 2. Character designation: Normate reductionism and nominal displacement -- 3. Come-to-bed eyes: Ophthalmocentrism, ocularcentrism, and symbolic castration -- 4. "A hand of the blind ventures forth": The grope, the grip, and haptic perception -- 5. Social friction and science fiction: Alterity, avoidance, and constructs of contagiousness -- 6. Visual violation: Staring, panopticism, and the unseen gazer -- 7. Culturally assisted suicide: The mourning and melancholia of blindness deconstructed.