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Thursday, July 19, 2007
“A Welcomed Summary”
Journal Heralds First Hand Account of
the Legal Movement
Toward Access for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Americans
The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education published a glowing
review of A
New Civil Right: Telecommunications Equality for Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Americans by Karen Peltz Strauss, a leading telecommunications policy
advocate in Washington, DC. “A New Civil Right is a welcomed summary of the last
half century’s battles and breakthroughs by deaf and hearing people in the
United States for local, state, and federal legislation. [Strauss] provides
firsthand details of the legislative movement toward telephone and television
(captioning) and the access.” Read the full review
here.
In A New Civil Right, Karen Peltz Strauss examines how and why these
changes took place when they did. Strauss chronicles the forty-year history of
the access movement while providing an insider’s perspective on how these
successes were achieved, including strategies used and compromises made. She
analyzes the forces within the deaf community that led to these developments,
and the fascinating interplay of politics, policy, and marketplace pressures.
View the table of
contents, and read
chapter nine to learn more about the introduction of closed captioning.
Order
A New Civil Right online and receive 20% off the regular price by typing “JUL0720%”
in the “Comments or Special Instructions” box below your credit card
information. You may also order by
mail.
 Author
Jan Kare Breivik’s
Deaf
Identities in the Making: Local Lives, Transnational Connections received
acknowledgment in the
Scandinavian Journal of
Disability Research: “This book is highly interesting. It represents
a very good introduction to, and a sensible and trustworthy analysis of, a world
that is unfamiliar to most people outside the deaf community. The book is also a
valuable contribution to the understanding of modern identity as something
constantly in the making and, as such, it is also a valuable contribution to
social sciences in general.”
Deafness and Education
International also published an excellent review of Deaf
Identities in the Making stating, “This is a valuable book for Deaf and
hearing readers who wish to know more about what it means to be Deaf. It will be
useful for teachers and students of deaf studies, sign sociolinguistics, as well
as sociology and social anthropology. It is highly readable and accessible, and
above all interesting, and could appeal to the general Deaf reader as well as
the scholar or teacher.” This revolutionary book is based on anthropological
research among deaf Norwegians, with a focus upon their life stories. Profiles
of ten Norwegian Deaf people living within a translocal/transnational framework
depict how core questions of identity are approached from different deaf points
of view. Read
chapter 1 and
order your copy today.
 “Deaf
Women’s Lives: Three Self-Portraits is an absorbing read, with stories of
three different deaf women from three different eras,” states SIGNews in
a recent review. “Each woman’s life story brings a unique perspective on the
experience of being deaf and female.” The full review is available
online. In
Deaf Women’s Lives, the third volume in the
Deaf Lives series,
“Bainy Cyrus, Frances M. Parsons, and Eileen Katz (with Celeste Cheyney) claim
writing as their own in this triple-text memoir of deaf women’s lives,” notes
series editor Brenda Jo Bruegemann. “The three authors featured in this
autobiographical triptych all grew up and became young adults—as
deaf/hard-of-hearing persons and as women—in different times, circumstances, and
locations. Each of their memoirs is unique. Yet they share a common quality;
each confirms the others’ experiences. These are remarkable women. These are
remarkable writers. These are remarkable deaf people. They all relate narratives
that are consumed by—and created with—writing, with words, and with a rich and
yet sometimes troubled journey into and through literacy in print and spoken
languages.” Read an excerpt from this unique collection from Bainy Cyrus’s
All Eyes, and order
Deaf Women’s Lives
here.
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