Personal and cultural histories of blindness
In the previous chapter, “The Invisible Gorilla and Other Inattentions,” Dr. M. Leona Godin considers the blind scientist and what blindness can offer science. In this final chapter, she discusses negotiating blind memes—meaning “cultural replicators,” ...
In the previous chapter, “The Scylla and Charybdis of Stigma and Superpowers,” M. Leona Godin explored how entrenched ableism and ocularcentrism encourages the sighted world to think of blind people in extremes: either super-sensed or ...
In the previous chapter, “Helen Keller in Vaudeville and in Love,” Godin incites readers to think about how notions of the virginal blind oppressed Helen Keller and stifled her dreams of becoming a wife and ...
John Milton is in some ways the heart of There Plant Eyes. After all, the title comes from a passage in his 1667 Paradise Lost–read the short passage from the famous invocation to the Muse ...
In the first chapter of There Plant Eyes, we travel back to the formative years of blindness in the Western cultural imagination: namely, the text of The Odyssey (traditionally ascribed to Homer), where so many ...
The introduction to There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness presents Godin’s earliest moments with vision loss when she was ten and visited so many baffled eye doctors. But the autobiographical quickly ...
