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4.27 AVERAGE
4.27 AVERAGE
A funny and necessary read. She had me looking to caricatured mythos around blindness in my own life and in the media I consume, and has informed my preaching around disability theology. The long list of cultural references she mentions have made it onto my to-read list.
I thoroughly enjoyed my experience with this book. I came away with a lot of insights about disability and my own sighted privelege, but also loved how Godwin wove in references to both her own life and cultural pieces.
Took me a while to latch on to the author’s style — with its mixture of personal experience, history and science, and polemic — but well worth it in the end, as a beginning step toward paying more attention to my own ocularcentrism and that of our culture.
There Plant Eyes is a wonderful overview of the perspective and history of being blind and visually impaired that delves into cultural inconsistencies that sighted people have of this group of people. Ranging from Homer to the Information Age, Godin explains in depth the stereotypes of reverence for the blind in classic literature and the nonsensical expectations of the sighted based on this. Godin uses her own experiences as a blind woman to talk about the misrepresentations in media and the misconceptions of helplessness that she has experienced in her lifetime.
Shelved in Adult Nonfiction - Social Sciences, I highly recommend for anyone exploring diverse perspectives, loves reading the history that isn't taught in school, and/or has a love of literature critique.
Shelved in Adult Nonfiction - Social Sciences, I highly recommend for anyone exploring diverse perspectives, loves reading the history that isn't taught in school, and/or has a love of literature critique.
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment
Minor: Cancer, Homophobia, Infidelity, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Pandemic/Epidemic
Eugenics
informative
reflective
slow-paced
overall, really great!! i learned a lot especially about history and literature and i can definitely see a lot of sighted people getting a lot of of this book. i do have a few minor criticisms that i can’t type out now because i have to go to work, but altogether i would definitely recommend this.