Forbidden Signs
American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language
235 pages, 12 halftones, 3 tables 6 x 9
©
1996
Paper $19.00
ISBN: 9780226039640
Published June 1998
Related links: Read an excerpt from Chapter Two.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: Foreigners in Their Own Land: Community
2: Savages and Deaf Mutes: Species and Race
3: Without Voices: Gender
4: From Refinement to Efficiency: Culture
5: The Natural Language of Signs: Nature
6: The Unnatural Language of Signs: Normality
Epilogue: The Trap of Paternalism
Notes
Index
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