Women and Deafness by Brenda Jo Brueggemann
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.
Susan Burch is Associate Professor of American Studies and Director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT. Alison Kafer is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781563686177 |
| ISBN 10 | 1563686171 |
| Title | Women and Deafness |
| Author | Brenda Jo Brueggemann |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Gallaudet University Press,U.S. |
| Year published | 2015-10-31 |
| Number of pages | 312 |
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