Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism

by Elsa Sjunneson

Book Overview

A Deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else.

As a Deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Elsa Sjunneson lives at the crossroads of blindness and sight, hearing and deafness--much to the confusion of the world around her. While she cannot see well enough to operate without a guide dog or...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1982152370
• ISBN13: 9781982152376
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: S&s/Simon Element
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"