Sociological analysis of deaf people's lives must therefore reflect discourses on both culture and disability, as well as their relationships to race, gender, sexuality, religion and age. Of particular importance in this context are multidisciplinary developments in social policy and service provision and advances in human and civil rights which aim to improve quality of deaf people's lives. Deaf Worlds therefore aims to be broad-based in the topics and disciplines it covers and to appeal to a wide readership. Our current subscription list stands at 5 - 600 subscribers, both national and international. Manuscripts should ideally be between 3 - 5,000 words in length, typed and fully referenced and supplied both as hard copy and as a text file on disc or as an email attachment.
All submissions are peer refereed.
Recent issues have included articles on eugenics, genetics and ethics, cochlear implants and deafened people, sign language interpreters - in search of a new breed, deaf people and access to the criminal justice system, vision as a constitutive element of Deaf communities, a comparison of disability rights legislation in UK and the USA and deaf people in mental health settings. We would particularly welcome articles relating to the interrelationships between deafness and disability, gender, sexuality and race at the present moment in time.