When the Mind Hears

When the Mind Hears PDF Author: Harlan Lane
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307874710
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 561

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The authoritative statement on the deaf, their education, and their struggle against prejudice.

When the Mind Hears

When the Mind Hears PDF Author: Harlan Lane
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307874710
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 561

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The authoritative statement on the deaf, their education, and their struggle against prejudice.

Report

Report PDF Author: State Library of Massachusetts
Publisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Forbidden Signs

Forbidden Signs PDF Author: Douglas C. Baynton
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226039641
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253

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Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language among deaf people. The ensuing debate over sign language invoked such fundamental questions as what distinguished Americans from non-Americans, civilized people from "savages," humans from animals, men from women, the natural from the unnatural, and the normal from the abnormal. An advocate of the return to sign language, Baynton found that although the grounds of the debate have shifted, educators still base decisions on many of the same metaphors and images that led to the misguided efforts to eradicate sign language. "Baynton's brilliant and detailed history, Forbidden Signs, reminds us that debates over the use of dialects or languages are really the linguistic tip of a mostly submerged argument about power, social control, nationalism, who has the right to speak and who has the right to control modes of speech."—Lennard J. Davis, The Nation "Forbidden Signs is replete with good things."—Hugh Kenner, New York Times Book Review

... Catalogue of Printed Books

... Catalogue of Printed Books PDF Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 752

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Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum

Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum PDF Author: British Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 756

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Making Disability Modern

Making Disability Modern PDF Author: Bess Williamson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350070459
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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Making Disability Modern: Design Histories brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplinary and national perspectives to examine how designed objects and spaces contributes to the meanings of ability and disability from the late 18th century to the present day, and in homes, offices, and schools to realms of national and international politics. The contributors reveal the social role of objects - particularly those designed for use by people with disabilities, such as walking sticks, wheelchairs, and prosthetic limbs - and consider the active role that makers, users and designers take to reshape the material environment into a usable world. But it also aims to make clear that definitions of disability-and ability-are often shaped by design.

The Oxford Handbook of Disability History

The Oxford Handbook of Disability History PDF Author: Michael A. Rembis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190234954
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 553

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The Oxford Handbook of Disability History features twenty-seven articles that span the diverse, global history of the disabled--from antiquity to today.

The Invention of Miracles

The Invention of Miracles PDF Author: Katie Booth
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501167103
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize “Meticulously researched, crackling with insights, and rich in novelistic detail” (Steve Silberman), this “provocative, sensitive, beautifully written biography” (Sylvia Nasar) tells the true—and troubling—story of Alexander Graham Bell’s quest to end deafness. “Researched and written through the Deaf perspective, this marvelously engaging history will have us rethinking the invention of the telephone.” —Jaipreet Virdi, PhD, author of Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History We think of Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but that’s not how he saw his own career. As the son of a deaf woman and, later, husband to another, his goal in life from adolescence was to teach deaf students to speak. Even his tinkering sprang from his teaching work; the telephone had its origins as a speech reading machine. The Invention of Miracles takes a “stirring” (The New York Times Book Review), “provocative” (The Boston Globe), “scrupulously researched” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) new look at an American icon, revealing the astonishing true genesis of the telephone and its connection to another, far more disturbing legacy of Bell’s: his efforts to suppress American Sign Language. Weaving together a dazzling tale of innovation with a moving love story, the book offers a heartbreaking account of how a champion can become an adversary and an enthralling depiction of the deaf community’s fight to reclaim a once-forbidden language. Katie Booth has been researching this story for more than fifteen years, poring over Bell’s papers, Library of Congress archives, and the records of deaf schools around America. But she’s also lived with this story for her entire life. Witnessing the damaging impact of Bell’s legacy on her family would set her on a path that overturned everything she thought she knew about language, power, deafness, and the telephone.

Open Your Eyes

Open Your Eyes PDF Author: H-Dirksen L. Bauman
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 081664618X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 361

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Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session

Catalogue of Printed Books

Catalogue of Printed Books PDF Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 932

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