Damned for Their Difference : The Cultural Construction of Deaf People As Disabled.

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.

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