Deaf Gain raising the stakes for human diversity
Contents; Foreword; Editors' Note; Introduction; Philosophical Gains; 1. Armchairs and Stares; 2. Identifying the "Able" in a Vari-able World; 3. The Case for Deaf Legal Theory; Language Gains; 4. Three Revolutions; 5. Deaf Gain in Evolutionary Perspective; 6. Deaf Gains in the Study...
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Minneapolis, London
University of Minnesota Press
2014
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Contents; Foreword; Editors' Note; Introduction; Philosophical Gains; 1. Armchairs and Stares; 2. Identifying the "Able" in a Vari-able World; 3. The Case for Deaf Legal Theory; Language Gains; 4. Three Revolutions; 5. Deaf Gain in Evolutionary Perspective; 6. Deaf Gains in the Study of Bilingualism; 7. What We Learned from Sign Languages; Language Gains in Action; 8. Advantages of Learning a Signed Language; 9. Baby Sign as Deaf Gain; 10. Manual Signs and Gestures ; 11. Bulwer's Speaking Hands; Sensory Gains; 12. Seeing the World through Deaf Eyes; 13. A Magic Touch; 14. Senses and Culture 15. The Deaf Gain of Wladislav Zeitlin16. The Hidden Gain; Social Gains; 17. Deaf Gain and Shared Signing Communities; 18. Gainful Employment; 19. Effective Deaf Action in the Deaf Community in Uruguay; 20. Deaf Gains in Brazil; 21. Deaf Gain: Beyond Deaf Culture; Creative Gains; 22. DeafSpace; 23. Co-Design from Divergent Thinking; 24. The Hearing Line; 25. Deaf Music; 26. Deaf Gain and Creativity in Signed Literature; 27. Deaf Gain and the Creative Arts; Afterword; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Index Deaf people are usually regarded by the hearing world as having a lack, as missing a sense. Yet a definition of deaf people based on hearing loss obscures a wealth of ways in which societies have benefited from the significant contributions of deaf people. In this bold intervention into ongoing debates about disability and what it means to be human, experts from a variety of disciplines-neuroscience, linguistics, bioethics, history, cultural studies, education, public policy, art, and architecture-advance the concept of Deaf Gain and challenge assumptions about what is normal. Through their |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XLII, 521 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780816691227 978-0-8166-9122-7 9780816691210 978-0-8166-9121-0 |