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Longmore and Lauri Umansky  \nThe New Disability History: American Perspectives Paul K. Longmore and Lauri Umansky  \nReflections: The Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Post-Revolutionary France  \nEdited and translated by Catherine J. Kudlick and Zina Weygand  \nSigns of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War II  \nSusan Burch  \nThe Radical Lives of Helen Keller  \nKim E. Nielsen  \nThe Radical Lives of Helen Keller  \nKim E. Nielsen  \nConsulting Editor: Harvey J. Kaye  \na  \nNEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS  \nNew York and London  \nNEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS  \nNew York and London [www.nyupress.org](www.nyupress.org)  \n© 2004 by New York University All rights reserved  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nielsen, Kim E.  \nThe radical lives of Helen Keller / Kim E. Nielsen  \n[p. cm](p. cm).—(The history of disability series) Includes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 0–8147–5813–4 (hc : acid-free)  \n1. Helen Keller, 1880–1968.  \n2. Helen Keller, 1880–1968—Political and social views.  \n3. Blind-deaf women—United States—Biography.  \n4. Blind-deaf women—Education—United States.  \nI. Title. II. Series.  \nHV1624 .K4N54 2003  \n362.4'1'092—dc21 2003014386  \nNew York University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability.  \nManufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nTo Nathan  \nContents  \nAcknowledgments ix Timeline xi  \nIntroduction 1  \n1 I Do Not Like This World As It Is: 1900–1924 15  \n2 The Call of the Sightless: 1924–1937 47  \n3 Manna in My Desert Places: 1937–1948 65  \n4 I Will Not Allow Polly to Climb a Pyramid: 1948–1968 99  \n5 One of the Least Free People on Earth:  \nThe Making and Remaking of Helen Keller 125  \nNotes 143  \nBibliography 167  \nIndex 175  \nAbout the Author 178  \nAcknowledgments  \nUnlike previous Hellen Keller biographers, I come to Keller as a historian trained in women’s political lives in the twentieth-century United States. As a child I did not read Keller’s mythical story or connect intensely with her image. Neither am I particularly interested in Anne Sullivan Macy’s education of her. Amazement with her disability and her accomplishments didn’t prompt this book nor did a desire to commemorate her. My intellectual interests center around how U.S. women have justified, explained, embraced, fought for, and lived out their citizenship on personal, familial, local, and national levels. Helen Keller interests me because she was one of the most influential and widely recognized women of the twentieth century, whose primary interests were political but whose political life has been largely ignored.  \nThe best part about writing on Helen Keller is the people I have met along the way. The generosity, intellectual energy, good spirits, and collegiality of the disability studies community are unparalleled. Paul Longmore and Lauri Umansky served as model editors, responding with good cheer to questions large and small. Susan Burch, Derek Jeffreys, Murdoch Johnson, Harvey Kaye, Linda Kerber, Brynne Thomas, and Dianne Tuff read the manuscript at pivotal moments and offered sound advice. Linn Heider is doubly talented, providing loving childcare and spotting me on the bench press. Commentators, fellow panelists, and audience members at meetings of the Organization of American Historians, Society for Disability Studies, Berkshire Conference on Women’s History, Southern Historical Association, and the University of Wisconsin-System Women’s Studies Conference offered insightful comments and vigorous questions. All helped to make this book better.","cbCaibrqyNjJiapF","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibrqyNjJiapF","pdf",1421387,193,"English","# Contents\n## Acknowledgments\n## Timeline\n## Introduction\n## Notes\n## Bibliography\n## Index\n## About the Author\n# Chapters\n## 1 I Do Not Like This World As It Is: 1900–1924\n## 2 The Call of the Sightless: 1924–1937\n## 3 Manna in My Desert Places: 1937–1948\n## 4 I Will Not Allow Polly to Climb a Pyramid: 1948–1968\n## 5 One of the Least Free People on Earth: The Making and Remaking of Helen Keller","[{\"question\":\"How does the author approach writing about Helen Keller?\",\"answer\":\"The author approaches Keller as a historian trained in women’s political lives, focusing on political history rather than a mythical childhood narrative or commemoration.\"},{\"question\":\"What aspect of Helen Keller’s life is emphasized as being frequently ignored?\",\"answer\":\"Keller’s primary interests were political, but her political life has been largely ignored, which the book seeks to address.\"},{\"question\":\"What motivates the author’s broader research interests beyond Keller herself?\",\"answer\":\"The author centers research on how U.S. women have justified, explained, embraced, fought for, and lived out citizenship on personal, familial, local, and national levels.\"}]","The Radical Lives of Helen Keller - Introduction | PDF",1789986429,297]