| Description | Interview with Gina Rimmer from Liverpool, a pupil at Chorley Wood grammar school for blind girls, Hertfordshire. She continues to discuss her experiences of education and being at boarding school, the subjects she enjoys studying and her opinions about the school. She talks about her plans for the future (tracks 1-2).
Interview with Miss Crawshaw, matron at Chorley Wood. She continues to discuss her pastoral care role in the school, the questions and problems the girls have concerning sex education, meeting boys, their understanding of the male body, the girls' guilt about getting to know boys and female friends by touch, and the sexualised connotations adults see in this. She thinks that the sighted world is disturbed by blind people gaining an understanding of people by touching them and so blind children begin to feel a sense of guilt about touching other people. She talks about the girls' anxieties about meeting boys who will want to have physical contact with them, and her worries about the girls being taken advantage of. She talks about having to explain that public displays of affection can offend people, some girls' need for constant reassurance in interaction with the sighted world, their need for their parents approval and the desire of many parents to protect their children unnecessarily (tracks 3-10).
Total: 33.32 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLAKF565D0997980 |