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Helen Keller
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Helen Keller: A Life in American History explores Keller's life, career as a lobbyist, and experiences as a deaf-blind woman within the context of her relationship with teacher-guardian-promoter Anne Sullivan Macy, and overarching social history. The book tells the dual story of a pair struggling with respective disabilities and financial hardship and the oppressive societal expectations set for women during Keller's lifetime. This presents a comprehensive study of Helen Keller's role in the development of support services specifically related to the deaf-blind.
Readers will learn about Keller's challenges and choices as well as how her public image often eclipsed her personal desires to live independently. Keller's deaf-blindness and hard-earned but limited speech did not define her as a human being as she explored the world of ideas and wove those ideas into her writing, lobbying for funds for the American Federation for the Blind and working with disabled activists and supporters to bring about practical help during times of tremendous societal change.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
306
Release Date:
2025-04-24
Publication Date:
2025-04-24
Publisher:
ABC-CLIO
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN13:
9798216195207
Weight:
468 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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