Helen Keller
A Life in American History
Seiten
2021
ABC-CLIO (Verlag)
978-1-4408-7463-5 (ISBN)
ABC-CLIO (Verlag)
978-1-4408-7463-5 (ISBN)
This book provides new and exciting interpretations of Helen Keller's unparalleled life as "the most famous American woman in the world" during her time.
Helen Keller: A Life in American History explores Keller's life, career as a lobbyist, and experiences as a deaf-blind woman within the context of her relationship with teacher-guardian-promoter Anne Sullivan Macy, and overarching social history. The book tells the dual story of a pair struggling with respective disabilities and financial hardship and the oppressive societal expectations set for women during Keller's lifetime. This presents a comprehensive study of Helen Keller's role in the development of support services specifically related to the deaf-blind.
Readers will learn about Keller's challenges and choices as well as how her public image often eclipsed her personal desires to live independently. Keller's deaf-blindness and hard-earned but limited speech did not define her as a human being as she explored the world of ideas and wove those ideas into her writing, lobbying for funds for the American Federation for the Blind and working with disabled activists and supporters to bring about practical help during times of tremendous societal change.
Helen Keller: A Life in American History explores Keller's life, career as a lobbyist, and experiences as a deaf-blind woman within the context of her relationship with teacher-guardian-promoter Anne Sullivan Macy, and overarching social history. The book tells the dual story of a pair struggling with respective disabilities and financial hardship and the oppressive societal expectations set for women during Keller's lifetime. This presents a comprehensive study of Helen Keller's role in the development of support services specifically related to the deaf-blind.
Readers will learn about Keller's challenges and choices as well as how her public image often eclipsed her personal desires to live independently. Keller's deaf-blindness and hard-earned but limited speech did not define her as a human being as she explored the world of ideas and wove those ideas into her writing, lobbying for funds for the American Federation for the Blind and working with disabled activists and supporters to bring about practical help during times of tremendous societal change.
Meredith Eliassen, MSLIS, is special collections librarian and university archivist at San Francisco State University, USA.
Series Foreword
Introduction: Why Helen Keller Matters
Chapter 1
Intersections: Alone We Can Do So Little
Chapter 2
Interventions
Chapter 3
Helen's Pen Pals
Chapter 4
Articulating Helen
Chapter 5
Money Talks
Chapter 6
The Boundless Universe
Chapter 7
Wrentham
Chapter 8
What Is in a Name?
Chapter 9
Preparedness and Paradoxes
Chapter 10
Between Persona and Image
Chapter 11
Together We Can Do So Much
Timeline
Primary Source Documents
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.10.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Women Making History |
| Zusatzinfo | 10 bw illus |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 164 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 620 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4408-7463-8 / 1440874638 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4408-7463-5 / 9781440874635 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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