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The Radical Lives of Helen Keller by Kim E Nielsen; Project Muse is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Despite her disabilities, Helen Keller worked tirelessly for human rights and other political issues. **A political biography that reveals new sides to Helen Keller** Several decades after her death in 1968, Helen Keller remains one of the most widely recognized women of the twentieth century. But the fascinating story of her vivid political life—particularly her interest in radicalism and anti-capitalist activism—has been largely overwhelmed by the sentimentalized story of her as a young deaf-blind girl. Keller had many lives indeed. Best known for her advocacy on behalf of the blind, she was also a member of the socialist party, an advocate of women's suffrage, a defender of the radical International Workers of the World, and a supporter of birth control—and she served as one of the nation's most effective but unofficial international ambassadors. In spite of all her political work, though, Keller rarely explored the political dimensions of disability, adopting beliefs that were often seen as conservative, patronizing, and occasionally repugnant. Under the wing of Alexander Graham Bell, a controversial figure in the deaf community who promoted lip-reading over sign language, Kell

Who reads The Radical Lives of Helen Keller?

Author

Kim E Nielsen; Project Muse

Publisher

New York University Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814758465

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Education, Memoir, Science