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Product Identifiers

PublisherABC-Clio

ISBN-101440874638

ISBN-139781440874635

eBay Product ID (ePID)7050095888

Product Key Features

Educational LevelHigh School, Elementary School

Number of Pages312 Pages

Publication NameHelen Keller : Alife in American History

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2021

SubjectWomen, Sociology / General, United States / General

TypeStudy Guide

AuthorMeredith Eliassen

Subject AreaSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography, History

SeriesWomen Making History Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight23.1 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceElementary/High School

LCCN2021-023102

Dewey Edition23

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal362.41092

Table Of ContentSeries Foreword Introduction: Why Helen Keller Matters Chapter 1 Intersections: Alone We Can Do So Little Chapter 2 Interventions Chapter 3 Helen's Pen Pals Chapter 4 Articulating Helen Chapter 5 Money Talks Chapter 6 The Boundless Universe Chapter 7 Wrentham Chapter 8 What Is in a Name? Chapter 9 Preparedness and Paradoxes Chapter 10 Between Persona and Image Chapter 11 Together We Can Do So Much Timeline Primary Source Documents Bibliography Index

SynopsisBooks in the Women Making History series explore the lives and contributions of important women in American History. Each volume goes beyond biographical details to consider historical context and explicitly discuss the world in which the individual lived and worked, the challenges she faced, and her lasting contributions. This approach allows readers to explore not just the life of a particular woman but also her various political, social, cultural, and historical contexts. In addition to chronological chapters, sidebars, a timeline, document excerpts, and a bibliography, an introductory chapter explores the cultural and historical significance of the individual and places her in the overall historical context, as well as how her actions, beliefs, or positions influenced not only women's history, but history as a whole. Book jacket., This book provides new and exciting interpretations of Helen Keller's unparalleled life as "the most famous American woman in the world" during her time. Helen Keller: A Life in American History explores Keller's life, career as a lobbyist, and experiences as a deaf-blind woman within the context of her relationship with teacher-guardian-promoter Anne Sullivan Macy, and overarching social history. The book tells the dual story of a pair struggling with respective disabilities and financial hardship and the oppressive societal expectations set for women during Keller's lifetime. This presents a comprehensive study of Helen Keller's role in the development of support services specifically related to the deaf-blind. Readers will learn about Keller's challenges and choices as well as how her public image often eclipsed her personal desires to live independently. Keller's deaf-blindness and hard-earned but limited speech did not define her as a human being as she explored the world of ideas and wove those ideas into her writing, lobbying for funds for the American Federation for the Blind and working with disabled activists and supporters to bring about practical help during times of tremendous societal change., This book provides new and exciting interpretations of Helen Keller's unparalleled life as "the most famous American woman in the world" during her time., Helen Keller: A Life in American History explores Keller's life, career as a lobbyist, and experiences as a deaf-blind woman within the context of her relationship with teacher-guardian-promoter Anne Sullivan Macy and overarching social history. The book tells the dual story of a pair struggling with respective disabilities and financial hardship and the oppressive societal expectations set for women during Keller's lifetime. This narrative is perhaps the most comprehensive study of Helen Keller's role in the development of support services specifically related to the deaf-blind, as delineated as different from the blind. Readers will learn about Keller's challenges and choices as well as how her public image often eclipsed her personal desires to live independently. Keller's deaf-blindness and hard-earned but limited speech did not define her as a human being as she explored the world of ideas and wove those ideas into her writing, lobbying for funds for the American Federation for the Blind and working with disabled activists and supporters to bring about practical help during times of tremendous societal change.

LC Classification NumberHV1624.K4