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245 10 a| Constructing disability after the Great Warh| [electronic resource] :b| blind Veterans in the Progressive era /c| Evan P. Sullivan.;

246 30 a| Blind Veterans in the Progressive era;

260 a| Urbana :b| University of Illinois Press,c| [2024];

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490 0 a| Disability histories;

500 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-157) and index.;

505 0 a| Beginning with Carl Bronner -- Blindness Comes Home: How American Charities Made Blind French Soldiers a Public Issue -- "I'll Get Along": Reporters Reimagine Blind American Soldiers -- Gender, Race, and Belonging at Evergreen and Beyond -- The Disability Politics of Blind Veteran Organizations in the United States -- Frank Schoble and the Persistence of Public Sympathy for Blind Veterans.;

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520 a| "World War I created thousands of blinded American veterans--and unleashed a metaphorical tug of war over the meanings of blindness, citizenship, and martial manhood. Evan P. Sullivan explores the ways that veterans and civilians determined the meanings of blindness in the shadows of the Great War and the destruction it caused. American culture used blind veterans to appeal to emotions and passion. Soldiers blinded outside of combat provided fodder for inspirational stories aimed at sighted readers. These veterans worked to become productive members of society even as ableism propagated by their sighted fellow citizens pigeonholed their unique life experiences into a collection of cultural tropes. Sullivan unearths the complex lives of blind soldiers and veterans and their families to reveal how they confronted barriers, gained an education, earned a living, and managed their self-image as men while continually exposed to the public's opinion of their success and failures"-- Provided by publisher.;

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Constructing disability after the Great War blind Veterans in the Progressive era / Evan P. Sullivan.

Author/creator	Sullivan, Evan P., 1989
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2024]
Description	xii, 168 pages illustrations 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Red Cross Institute for the Blind (Baltimore, Md.)--History. Disabled veterans--United States. --Social conditions. --20th century. Blind--United States. --Medical care. --History. --20th century. Disabled veterans--Rehabilitation. --United States. --History. --20th century. People with disabilities--Rehabilitation. --United States. --History. --20th century. World War, 1914-1918--Veterans. --United States. World War, 1914-1918--Medical care. --United States.

Portion of title	Blind Veterans in the Progressive era
Physical medium	illustrations
Series	Disability histories
Contents	Beginning with Carl Bronner -- Blindness Comes Home: How American Charities Made Blind French Soldiers a Public Issue -- "I'll Get Along": Reporters Reimagine Blind American Soldiers -- Gender, Race, and Belonging at Evergreen and Beyond -- The Disability Politics of Blind Veteran Organizations in the United States -- Frank Schoble and the Persistence of Public Sympathy for Blind Veterans.
Abstract	"World War I created thousands of blinded American veterans--and unleashed a metaphorical tug of war over the meanings of blindness, citizenship, and martial manhood. Evan P. Sullivan explores the ways that veterans and civilians determined the meanings of blindness in the shadows of the Great War and the destruction it caused. American culture used blind veterans to appeal to emotions and passion. Soldiers blinded outside of combat provided fodder for inspirational stories aimed at sighted readers. These veterans worked to become productive members of society even as ableism propagated by their sighted fellow citizens pigeonholed their unique life experiences into a collection of cultural tropes. Sullivan unearths the complex lives of blind soldiers and veterans and their families to reveal how they confronted barriers, gained an education, earned a living, and managed their self-image as men while continually exposed to the public's opinion of their success and failures"-- Provided by publisher.
General note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-157) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2024006021
ISBN	9780252046162 cloth
ISBN	9780252088247 paperback
ISBN	ebook

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