Damned for Their Difference : The Cultural Construction of Deaf People As Disabled.
Branson, Jan.
Damned for Their Difference : The Cultural Construction of Deaf People As Disabled. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (320 pages)
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.
9781563681714
Deaf.
Deaf-Social conditions.
Electronic books.
HV2380
305.9/08162
Damned for Their Difference : The Cultural Construction of Deaf People As Disabled. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (320 pages)
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.
9781563681714
Deaf.
Deaf-Social conditions.
Electronic books.
HV2380
305.9/08162