Deaf and disability studies : interdisciplinary perspectives / Susan Burch, Alison Kafer, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burch, Susan, editor.

Kafer, Alison, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deaf people.

Interdisciplinary research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : Gallaudet University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection presents 14 essays by renowned scholars on Deaf people, Deafhood, Deaf histories, and Deaf identity and their intersection with general disabilities activism, alliances, boundaries, and overlaps.

Contents:

"We are of a different class" : ableist rhetoric in deaf America, 1880-1920 / Tavian Robinson

Intersecting reflections / Khadijat Rashid

Deaf matters : compulsory hearing and ability trouble / Kristen Harmon

Focus on which (deaf) space? : identity and belonging among deaf women in New Delhi, India / Michele Friedner

Contested signs : deaf children, indigeneity, and disablement in Denmark and the United States / Lakshmi Fjord

Identifying allies : explorations of deaf-hearing relationships / Joan Ostrove and Gina Oliva

Deaf community approaches to HIV/AIDS / Leila Monaghan and Constanze Schmaling

Unlikely alliances : crossing the deaf and hearing divide / Lindsey Patterson

Dale Dahl and Judy Heumann : deaf man, disabled woman-allies in 1970s Berkeley / Corbett Joan O'Toole

Deaf and disability studies : a conversation with Yerker Andersson / Yerker Andersson and Susan Burch

Committed critique : an interview with Nirmala Erevelles / Nirmala Erevelles and Alison Kafer

"What not to pack" : conducting research among deaf people in Tanzania / Jessica Lee

Testing the social model of disability : the United Nations and language access for deaf people / Soya Mori

The tango, or, What deaf studies and disability studies do-do / Brenda Jo Brueggemann.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781563684654

1563684659

OCLC:

761125793