Deaf in America
Subtitle: voices from a culture
By: Carol Padden, Tom Humphries
Contributors: Humphries, Tom (Tom L.)
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9780674194236; 9780674194243
Subjects: Deafness; Taubstummheit; Deaf; Psychosoziale Situation; Sourds
Description: Refusing to accept the limitations others have placed on the deaf, the authors--themselves deaf--argue for a deaf culture, one united by and expressed through the American Sign Language.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-129) and index.
Table of contents: title: Learning to be deaf; title: Images of being; title: A different center; title: Living in others' world; title: A changing consciousness; title: The meaning of sound; title: Historically created lives.