Helen Keller A Life in American History

This book provides new and exciting interpretations of Helen Keller''s unparalleled life as "the most famous American woman in the world" during her time. 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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Meredith Eliassen, MSLIS, is special collections librarian and university archivist at San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Meredith Eliassen
• Mitarbeit: Peg A Lamphier (Herausgeber), Rosanne Welch (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Abc Clio Press
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 24.04.2025
• Thema: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Allgemeines, Lexika
• EAN: 9798216195207
• ISBN: 9798216195207
• Anzahl Seiten: 312
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 15.4 x 23.2 x 2 cm
• Serie: Women Making History
• Themen: USA, Keller, Helen, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Biography: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / General, HISTORY / Women, Deafness, blindness, Radcliffe College, Authors, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women and girls, disability rights, Suffragists, National Federation for the Blind, The Miracle Worker