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Inside Deaf Culture
Carol Padden
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Description for Inside Deaf Culture
Paperback. Presents the story of the changing life of a community, revealing historical events and forces that have shaped the ways that Deaf people define themselves. This book relates Deaf people's search for a voice of their own, and their proud self-discovery and self-description as a flourishing culture. It reveals their confidence and anxiety. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFFG; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 216.
In this absorbing story of the changing life of a community, the authors of Deaf in America reveal historical events and forces that have shaped the ways that Deaf people define themselves today. Inside Deaf Culture relates Deaf people's search for a voice of their own, and their proud self-discovery and self-description as a flourishing culture. Padden and Humphries show how the nineteenth-century schools for the deaf, with their denigration of sign language and their insistence on oralist teaching, shaped the lives of Deaf people for generations to come. They describe how Deaf culture and ... Read more
In this absorbing story of the changing life of a community, the authors of Deaf in America reveal historical events and forces that have shaped the ways that Deaf people define themselves today. Inside Deaf Culture relates Deaf people's search for a voice of their own, and their proud self-discovery and self-description as a flourishing culture. Padden and Humphries show how the nineteenth-century schools for the deaf, with their denigration of sign language and their insistence on oralist teaching, shaped the lives of Deaf people for generations to come. They describe how Deaf culture and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
216g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674022522
SKU
V9780674022522
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About Carol Padden
Carol Padden is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. Tom Humphries is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and the Teacher Education Program at the University of California, San Diego.
Reviews for Inside Deaf Culture
This well-organized and clearly written book provides a fascinating inside look at the development of Deaf culture...Padden and Humphries's presentation of these marvelous insights into the history and development of the language and beliefs of the Deaf should be viewed as a welcome step in the quest to inform the hearing world of the rich and fertile culture of the ... Read more