Dr Gili Hammer, an anthropologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discusses her book Blindness through the Looking Glass: The Performance of Blindness, Gender, and the Sensory Body, exploring how visually impaired Israeli women grasp and perform the interface between blindness and gender.
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This interesting research is part of a sphere of A thread of study of blind people to be able to understand the blindness of the sighted and the cultural male gaze., beginning with my 2015 book Sight Unseen: Gender and Race through Blind Eyes, Columbia University Press. I appreciate that my work is being extended by feminist anthropology.