Women and deafness
Subtitle: double visions
By: Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Susan Burch, editors
Contributors: Brueggemann, Brenda Jo, 1958-; Burch, Susan
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Deaf women -- United States; Deafness -- Social aspects -- United States
Description: xiv, 298 p. : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-284) and index
Table of contents: title: Family matters : female dynamics within deaf schools / Jessica Lee; title: Was Helen Keller deaf? : blindness, deafness, and multiple identities / Kim E. Nielsen; title: The extended family : deaf women in organizations / Sara Robinson; title: Deaf women and inequality in educational attainment and occupational status : is deafness or femaleness to blame? / Sharon Barnartt; title: Marcelina Ruiz Ricote y Fernández : nineteenth-century feminist educator of deaf and blind girls / Susan Plann; title: The ladies take charge : women teachers in the education of deaf students / Margret Winzer; title: "Like ordinary hearing children" : mothers raising offspring according to oralist dictates / Emily K. Abel; title: Merging two worlds / Gina A. Oliva and Linda Risser Lytle; title: Deaf eyes : the Allen sisters' photography, 1885-1920 / Brenda Jo Brueggemann; title: The aesthetics of linguistic envy : deafness and muteness in Children of a lesser God and The piano / Jennifer L. Nelson; title: "Slain in the spirit" / Kristen Harmon; title: How deaf women produce gendered signs / Arlene Blumenthal Kelly; title: "Beautiful, though deaf" : the deaf American beauty pageant / Susan Burch