Forbidden Signs American Culture and the Campaign Against Sign Language

Name: Forbidden Signs American Culture and the Campaign Against Sign Language
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ISBN: 9780226039640

ISBN-10: 0226039641

ISBN-13: 9780226039640

Edition: 1996

Authors: Douglas C. Baynton

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Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language among deaf people. The ensuing debate over sign language invoked such fundamental questions as what distinguished Americans from non-Americans, civilized people from "savages," humans from animals, men from women, the natural from the unnatural, and the normal from the abnormal. An advocate of the return to sign language, Baynton found that although the grounds of the debate have shifted, educators still base decisions on many of the same metaphors and images…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/22/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 235
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Foreigners in Their Own Land: Community



Savages and Deaf Mutes: Species and Race



Without Voices: Gender



From Refinement to Efficiency: Culture



The Natural Language of Signs: Nature



The Unnatural Language of Signs: Normality


Epilogue: The Trap of Paternalism


Notes


Index