Damned for Their Difference : The Cultural Construction of Deaf People as Disabled / / Jan Branson and Don Miller
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| Autore: |
Branson Jan
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| Titolo: |
Damned for Their Difference : The Cultural Construction of Deaf People as Disabled / / Jan Branson and Don Miller
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| Pubblicazione: | Washington, D.C., : Gallaudet, c2002 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xx, 300 p. :) : ill. ; |
| Disciplina: | 305.9/08162 |
| Soggetto topico: | Deaf people - Great Britain |
| Deaf people | |
| Altri autori: |
MillerDon
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| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE The Cultural Construction of "the Disabled": A Historical Overview -- Introduction -- The Cosmological Tyranny of Science: From the New Philosophy to Eugenics -- The Domestication of Difference: The Classification, Segregation, and Institutionalization of Unreason -- PART TWO The Cultural Construction of Deaf People as "Disabled": A Sociological History of Discrimination -- Introduction -- The New Philosophy, Sign Language, and the Search for the Perfect Language in the Seventeenth Century -- The Formalization of Deaf Education and the Cultural Construction of "the Deaf" and "Deafness" in the Eighteenth Century -- The "Great Confinement" of Deaf People through Education in the Nineteenth Century -- The Alienation and Individuation of Deaf People: Eugenics and Pure Oralism in the Late-Nineteenth Century -- Cages of Reason-Bureaucratization and the Education of Deaf People in the Twentieth Century: Teacher Training, Therapy, and Technology -- The Denial of Deafness in the Late-Twentieth Century: The Surgical Violence of Medicine and the Symbolic Violence of Mainstreaming -- Ethno-Nationalism and Linguistic Imperialism: The State and the Limits of Change in the Battles for Human Rights for Deaf People -- Appendix: The 1881 Survey of Methods Used in British Schools for the Deaf -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Damned for Their Difference |
| ISBN: | 1-56368-171-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819022303321 |
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