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Blind to Sameness: Sexpectations and the Social Construction of Male and Female Bodies
by Asia Friedman (Author),
University Of Chicago Press (Publisher)
Product Specifications
Book Description
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, allowing Friedman
to examine the visual construction of the sexed body and
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9780226023465
Language English
Binding Hard Bound
Publisher University Of Chicago Press
Publishing Date 2013-07-15
Total Pages 216