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Blind to Sameness
Asia Friedman
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Description for Blind to Sameness
Paperback. What is the role of the senses in how we understand the world? Drawing on more than sixty interviews with two decidedly different populations - the blind and the transgendered, this title answers provocative questions about the relationships between sex differences, biology, and visual perception. Num Pages: 216 pages, 19 halftones, 4 line drawings, 11 tables. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JMG; JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 228 x 12. Weight in Grams: 308.
What is the role of the senses in how we understand the world? Cognitive sociology has long addressed the way we perceive or imagine boundaries in our ordinary lives, but Asia Friedman pushes this question further still. How, she asks, did we come to blind ourselves to sex sameness? Drawing on more than sixty interviews with two decidedly different populations - the blind and the transgendered - "Blind to Sameness" answers provocative questions about the relationships between sex differences, biology, and visual perception. Both groups speak from unique perspectives that magnify the social construction of dominant visual conceptions of sex, ... Read more
What is the role of the senses in how we understand the world? Cognitive sociology has long addressed the way we perceive or imagine boundaries in our ordinary lives, but Asia Friedman pushes this question further still. How, she asks, did we come to blind ourselves to sex sameness? Drawing on more than sixty interviews with two decidedly different populations - the blind and the transgendered - "Blind to Sameness" answers provocative questions about the relationships between sex differences, biology, and visual perception. Both groups speak from unique perspectives that magnify the social construction of dominant visual conceptions of sex, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226023632
SKU
V9780226023632
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About Asia Friedman
Asia Friedman is assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Delaware.
Reviews for Blind to Sameness
"Blind to Sameness is a remarkable and highly original book. For theorists and empiricists alike this is a masterful empirical work in the social construction of reality and a fine example to show that theorist and researcher need not be mentally separated." (Wayne H. Brekhus, author of Peacocks, Chameleons, Centaurs)"