num_pages: 144
description: Refusing to accept the limitations others have placed on the deaf, the authors--themselves deaf--argue for a deaf culture, one united by &amp; expressed thru the American Sign Language. A long, painful experience of hearing intolerance has generally kept Deaf culture fairly closed to outsiders, even sympathetic ones. But now Padden &amp; Humphries...have written a charming small book that invites the rest of us at least part way in...A most welcome addition to that very small shelf of books that truly illuminate the experience of being deaf.--Beryl Lieff Benderly, Psychology TodayPrefaceIntroductionLearning to be deafImages of being A different center Living in others' world A changing consciousness The meaning of sound Historically created livesReferencesIndex
language: English
title: Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture
titlecomplete: Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture
genres: Social Issues, Language, History, Disability, Sociology, Textbooks, Read For School, Academic, Nonfiction, School
ratings_count: 674
publisher: Harvard University Press