The Social Condition of Deaf People : : The Story of a Woman and a Hearing Society /

The Social Condition of Deaf People : : The Story of a Woman and a Hearing Society / / ed. by Sara Trovato, Anna Folchi.

This book is about the social condition of Deaf people, told through a Deaf woman’s autobiography and a series of essays investigating how hearing societies relate to Deaf people.Michel Foucault described the powerful one as the beholder who is not seen. This is why a Deaf woman’s perspective is imp...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Anselmo, Graziella,
Carli, Fulvia,
Ceria, Silvia,
Des Dorides, Luca,
Folchi, Anna,
Meraviglia, Cinzia,
Mereghetti, Emiliano,
Santoro, Mirko,
Trovato, Sara,
HerausgeberIn:
Folchi, Anna,
Trovato, Sara,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC] , 16
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XXIV, 441 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • A duet as an introduction
  • 1a Hearing people. A larger sphere and a smaller sphere
  • 1b Hearing people. Power issues in Michel Foucault’s framework, and a society to share
  • 2a My origins
  • 2b Good reasons for the right to sign languages
  • 3a A beautiful childhood
  • 3b Deaf education results in ten European countries: Equitability, accessibility, and accountability of educational systems
  • 4a An inadequate education at school, an effective education at home
  • 4b Building written production in Deaf students. The “Free text writing” workshop in an excellent Italian bilingual school
  • 5a Great history from my perspective: Student protests following 1968
  • 5b Speaking for oneself: Language and power in the Italian deaf community
  • 6a First jobs
  • 6b Deaf people from school to labor in ten European countries
  • 7a Deaf awareness
  • 7b Deaf President then. Political pluralism in the unification of Deaf associations in liberated Italy
  • 8a Theatrical activity. Joseph Castronovo’s story
  • 8b A genial man in the wrong institutional environment. Deaf empowerment in Italian and French theatre experiences
  • 9a A citizen of the world
  • 9b Theories about deafness: Disability, culture, identity
  • 10a Engaging for my community
  • 10b Hypothesis on policy evaluation and school legislation: The effects of access to education, mainstreaming and instructional bilingualism
  • 11a Research work
  • 11b How society at large can become inclusive, sector after sector: Ethical choices in research as confronted to deafness and Deaf persons in Italy
  • 12a Edgardo Carli, Deaf partisan. A conference of Anna’s
  • 12b Academic matters. The Deaf perspective: Difficulties and proposed solutions
  • 13a Being a Deaf woman
  • 13b Deaf women, deaf men, hearing women, hearing men
  • Anna’s acknowledgments
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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