Inside Deaf Culture

Name: Inside Deaf Culture
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ISBN: 9780674015067

ISBN-10: 0674015061

ISBN-13: 9780674015067

Edition: 2005

Authors: Carol A. Padden, Tom L. Humphries

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In this absorbing story of the changing life of a community, the authors of Deaf in America reveal historical events and forces that have shaped the ways that Deaf people define themselves today. Inside Deaf Culture relates Deaf people's search for a voice of their own, and their proud self-discovery and self-description as a flourishing culture. Padden and Humphries show how the nineteenth-century schools for the deaf, with their denigration of sign language and their insistence on oralist teaching, shaped the lives of Deaf people for generations to come. They describe how Deaf culture and art thrived in mid-twentieth century Deaf clubs and Deaf theatre, and profile controversial…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 1/30/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Carol Padden is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego.

Tom Humphries is associate professor in the Department of Communication and the Teacher Education Program at the University of California, San Diego.



Introduction: The Lens of Culture



Silenced Bodies



An Entirely Separate School



The Problem of Voice



A New Class Consciousness



Technology of Voice



Anxiety of Culture



The Promise of Culture



Cultures into the Future


Notes


References


Acknowledgments


Index