Window Shopping with Helen Keller
Architecture and Disability in Modern Culture
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2025
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-74897-9 (ISBN)
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-74897-9 (ISBN)
A particular history of how encounters between architects and people with disabilities transformed modern culture.
Window Shopping with Helen Keller recovers a series of influential moments when architects and designers engaged the embodied experiences of people with disabilities. David Serlin reveals how people with sensory and physical impairments navigated urban spaces and helped to shape modern culture. Through four case studies—the lives of Joseph Merrick (aka “The Elephant Man”) and Helen Keller, the projects of the Works Progress Administration, and the design of the Illinois Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped—Serlin offers a new history of modernity’s entanglements with disability.
Window Shopping with Helen Keller recovers a series of influential moments when architects and designers engaged the embodied experiences of people with disabilities. David Serlin reveals how people with sensory and physical impairments navigated urban spaces and helped to shape modern culture. Through four case studies—the lives of Joseph Merrick (aka “The Elephant Man”) and Helen Keller, the projects of the Works Progress Administration, and the design of the Illinois Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped—Serlin offers a new history of modernity’s entanglements with disability.
David Serlin is professor of communication and science studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is author or editor of numerous books, including Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Introduction
Chapter One: The Church of the Elephant Man
Chapter Two: Helen Keller and the Urban Archive
Chapter Three: Disabling the WPA
Chapter Four: Overdue at the Library
Epilogue: 1968
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.2.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 48 halftones |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-226-74897-9 / 0226748979 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-74897-9 / 9780226748979 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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