Women and Deafness Double Visions

Name: Women and Deafness Double Visions
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ISBN: 9781563682933

ISBN-10: 1563682931

ISBN-13: 9781563682933

Edition: 2006

Authors: Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Susan Burch

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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…

Book details

List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Publication date: 10/15/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Brenda Brueggemann is currently Professor of English, Vice-Chair of the Rhetoric Composition and Literacy Program, and Acting Director of Literacy Studies at Ohio State University. She is also the former coordinator of the Disability Studies Program and American Sign Language Program at Ohio State University and currently edits the field's oldest journal, Disability Studies Quarterly. She has served on several of the Nisonger Center's related grants/projects.



Introduction





In and Out of the Community


Family Matters: Female Dynamics within Deaf Schools



Was Helen Keller Deaf? Blindness, Deafness, and Multiple Identities



The Extended Family: Deaf Women in Organizations



Deaf Women and Inequality in Educational Attainment and Occupational Status: Is Deafness or Femaleness to Blame?






(Women's) Authority and Shaping Deafness


Marcelina Ruiz Ricote y Fernandez: Nineteenth-Century Feminist Educator of Deaf and Blind Girls



The Ladies Take Charge: Women Teachers in the Education of Deaf Students



"Like Ordinary Hearing Children": Mothers Raising Offspring according to Oralist Dictates



Merging Two Worlds






Reading Deaf Women


Deaf Eyes: The Allen Sisters' Photography, 1885-1920



The Aesthetics of Linguistic Envy: Deafness and Muteness in Children of a Lesser God and The Piano



"Slain in the Spirit"



How Deaf Women Produce Gendered Signs



"Beautiful, though Deaf": The Deaf American Beauty Pageant



Bibliography


Contributors


Index