Damned for their difference : the cultural construction of deaf people as "disabled" : a sociological history /
Branson, Jan,
Damned for their difference : the cultural construction of deaf people as "disabled" : a sociological history / Jan Branson and Don Miller. - Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 2002. - xx, 300 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I: The cultural construction of "the disables": a historical overview -- 1. The cosmological tyranny of science: from the new philosophy to eugenics -- 2. The domestication of difference: the classification, segregation, and institutionalization of unreason -- II: The cultural construction of deaf people as "disabled": a sociological history of discrimination -- 3. The new philosophy, sign language, and the search for the perfect language in the seventeenth century -- 4. The formalization of deaf education and the cultural construction of "the deaf" and "deafness" in the eighteenth century -- 5. The "great confinement" of deaf people through education in the nineteenth century -- 6. The alienation and individuation of deaf people: eugenics and pure oralism in the late-nineteenth century -- 7. Cages of reason--bureaucratization and the education of deaf people in the twentieth century: teacher training, therapy, and technology -- 8. The denial of deafness in the late-twentieth century: the surgical violence of medicine and the symbolic violence of mainstreaming -- 9. Ethno-nationalism and linguistic imperialism: the state and the limits of change in the battles for human rights for deaf people.
Represents a sociological history of how deaf people came to be classified as disabled, from the 17th century through the 1990s.
9781563681714
2027/heb34591 hdl
2001056888
011718164 Uk
--Great Britain.--Grande-Bretagne.
Great Britain.
Deaf. Deaf Deaf. Persons With Hearing Impairments Personnes sourdes. Personnes sourdes deaf. Deaf. Doven.
Damned for their difference : the cultural construction of deaf people as "disabled" : a sociological history / Jan Branson and Don Miller. - Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 2002. - xx, 300 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I: The cultural construction of "the disables": a historical overview -- 1. The cosmological tyranny of science: from the new philosophy to eugenics -- 2. The domestication of difference: the classification, segregation, and institutionalization of unreason -- II: The cultural construction of deaf people as "disabled": a sociological history of discrimination -- 3. The new philosophy, sign language, and the search for the perfect language in the seventeenth century -- 4. The formalization of deaf education and the cultural construction of "the deaf" and "deafness" in the eighteenth century -- 5. The "great confinement" of deaf people through education in the nineteenth century -- 6. The alienation and individuation of deaf people: eugenics and pure oralism in the late-nineteenth century -- 7. Cages of reason--bureaucratization and the education of deaf people in the twentieth century: teacher training, therapy, and technology -- 8. The denial of deafness in the late-twentieth century: the surgical violence of medicine and the symbolic violence of mainstreaming -- 9. Ethno-nationalism and linguistic imperialism: the state and the limits of change in the battles for human rights for deaf people.
Represents a sociological history of how deaf people came to be classified as disabled, from the 17th century through the 1990s.
9781563681714
2027/heb34591 hdl
2001056888
011718164 Uk
--Great Britain.--Grande-Bretagne.
Great Britain.
Deaf. Deaf Deaf. Persons With Hearing Impairments Personnes sourdes. Personnes sourdes deaf. Deaf. Doven.