7. Our Ancestors the Sighted: Making Blind People French and French People Blind, 1750– 1991

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Disability, Citizenship, And Belonging: A Critical Introduction 1
4. 1. Homer’s Odyssey: Multiple Disability and the Best Years of Our Lives 22
5. 2. Defect: A Selective Reinterpretation of American Immigration History 44
6. 3. The Disremembered Past 65
7. 4. Integrating Disability, Transforming Disease History: Tuberculosis and Its Past 83
8. 5. Screening Disabilities: Visual Fields, Public Culture, and the Atypical Mind in the Twenty- First Century 103
9. 6. Social Confluence and Citizenship: A View from the Intersection of Music and Disability 123
10. 7. Our Ancestors the Sighted: Making Blind People French and French People Blind, 1750– 1991 143
11. 8. Citizenship and the Family: Parents of Children with Disabilities, the Pursuit of Rights, and Paternalism 165
12. 9. Cognitive Disability, Capability Equality, and Citizenship 186
13. 10. Invisible Disability: Seeing, Being, Power 204
14. 11. Disability Trouble 223
15. Notes 237
16. Contributors 291
17. Index 295
18. Acknowledgments 309