Women and deafness : double visions

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Label

Women and deafness : double visions

Title remainder

double visions

Statement of responsibility

Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Susan Burch, editors

Contributor

• Brueggemann, Brenda Jo, 1958-
• Burch, Susan

Subject

• Deaf women
• Deaf women -- United States
• Deafness -- Social aspects
• Deafness -- Social aspects -- United States
• United States

Language

eng

Summary

• The fourteen contributors to this interdisciplinary volume apply research and methodological approaches from sociology, ethnography, literary/film studies, history, rhetoric, education, and public health to open heretofore unexplored territory on deafness
• "This new collection bridges two dynamic academic fields: Women's Studies and Deaf Studies. The 14 contributors to this interdisciplinary volume apply research and methodological approaches from sociology, ethnography, literary/film studies, history, rhetoric, education, and public health to open heretofore unexplored territory. Part One: In and Out of the Community addresses female dynamics within deaf schools; Helen Keller's identity as a deaf woman; deaf women's role in Deaf organizations; and whether or not the inequity in education and employment opportunities for deaf women is bias against gender or disability. Part Two: (Women's) Authority and Shaping Deafness explores the life of 19th-century teacher Marcelina Ruis Y Fernandez; the influence of single, hearing female instructors in deaf education; the extent of women's authority over oralist educational dictates during the 1900s; and a deaf daughter's relationship with her hearing mother in the late 20th century. Part Three: Reading Deaf Women considers two deaf sisters' exceptional creative freedom from 1885 to 1920; the depictions of deaf or mute women in two popular films; a Deaf woman's account of blending the public--private, deaf--hearing, and religious--secular worlds; how five Deaf female ASL teachers define 'gender,' 'feminism,' 'sex,' and 'patriarchy' in ASL and English; and 20th-century American Deaf beauty pageants that emphasize physicality while denying Deaf identity, yet also challenge mainstream notions of 'the perfect body.'" -- Publisher's description

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

305.9/0820973

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HV2545

LC item number

.W65 2006

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography