Sylvie,
I've read the third book which is also on BARD. It describes a sighted
woman's view of blind people, as her understanding of blindness developed
during her time teaching at a school for blind adults. The school was
located in a developing country. I can't remember which one. The book is not
written from a political prospective. It disturbed some of the members of
the DB Review list because it so honestly described the author's perceptions
of the blind people she met, including physical descriptions of them which
sometimes involved disfigurement of their eyes. I thought that the value of
the book was to give blind people some understanding of the feelings and
attitudes of well meaning sighted people toward blind people.
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] question about three books on blindness
Hi all,
A friend of mine who is fully sighted is looking for some books about
blindness from a radical/progressive perspective. A local bookstore has the
below books, which I haven't read. Does anyone know anything about any of
them? and if one or more of them are written from a radical/progressive
perspective?
I checked and found that all three of them are on Bookshare.
1. Blind Man's Bluff by Geri Taeckeus
2. Long Time No See by Beth Finke
3. For The Benefit Of Those Who See by Rosemary Mahoney
Thanks in advance for whatever you can tell me.
For justice and peace,
Sylvie
