Women and Deafness
Contents Introduction
Family Matters: Female Dynamics within Deaf Schools
Was Helen Keller Deaf? Blindness, Deafness, and Multiple Identities
The Extended Family: Deaf Women in Organizations
Deaf Women and Inequality in Educational Attainment and Occupational Status: Is
Deafness or Femaleness to Blame?
Marcelina Ruiz Ricote y Fernández: Nineteenth-Century Feminist Educator of Deaf
and Blind Girls
The Ladies Take Charge: Women Teachers in the Education of Deaf Students
“Like Ordinary Hearing Children”: Mothers Raising Offspring according to Oralist
Dictates
Merging Two Worlds
Deaf Eyes: The Allen Sisters’ Photography, 1885–1920
The Aesthetics of Linguistic Envy: Deafness and Muteness in Children of a
Lesser God and The Piano
“Slain in the Spirit”
How Deaf Women Produce Gendered Signs
“Beautiful, though Deaf”: The Deaf American Beauty Pageant Bibliography Contributors Index
Susan Burch is Visiting Associate Professor of Disability Studies at Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. ISBN 1-56368-293-1, 978-1-56368-293-3, 6 x 9 casebound, 312 pages, photographs, sign illustrations, tables, bibliography, index $38.00s
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