In this Book
- Women and Deafness: Double Visions
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: Gallaudet University Press
summary
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.”
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- pp. i-iii
- Introduction
- pp. vii-xiv
- Part One
- Family Matters
- pp. 5-20
- Part Two
- Marcelina Ruiz Ricote y Ferna
- pp. 84-109
- Merging Two Worlds
- pp. 147-163
- Part Three
- Reading Deaf Women: Editors’ Introduction
- pp. 167-169
- ‘‘Slain in the Spirit’’
- pp. 205-225
- How Deaf Women Produce Gendered Signs
- pp. 226-241
- Bibliography
- pp. 263-284
- Contributors
- pp. 285-287
Additional Information
ISBN
9781563683824
Related ISBN(s)
9781563682933
MARC Record
OCLC
191728950
Pages
312
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No