Blindness and visual culture: An eyewitness account

Journal of Visual Culture

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 179-190

  Kleege, Georgina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blind autobiography; Blindness; Denis Diderot; Disability studies; Helen Keller; Philosophy of perception; Visual culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749504551     PISSN: 14704129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470412905054672     Document Type: Article

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