{"product_id":"9781563682933","title":"Women and Deafness: Double Visions","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis new collection bridges two dynamic academic fields: Women’s Studies and Deaf Studies. The 14 contributors to this interdisciplinary volume apply research and methodological approaches from sociology, ethnography, literary\/film studies, history, rhetoric, education, and public health to open heretofore unexplored territory.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e       Part One: In and Out of the Community addresses female dynamics within deaf schools; Helen Keller’s identity as a deaf woman; deaf women’s role in Deaf organizations; and whether or not the inequity in education and employment opportunities for deaf women is bias against gender or disability. Part Two: (Women’s) Authority and Shaping Deafness explores the life of 19th-century teacher Marcelina Ruis Y Fernandez; the influence of single, hearing female instructors in deaf education; the extent of women’s authority over oralist educational dictates during the 1900s; and a deaf daughter’s relationship with her hearing mother in the late 20th century.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e       Part Three: Reading Deaf Women considers two deaf sisters’ exceptional creative freedom from 1885 to 1920; the depictions of deaf or mute women in two popular films; a Deaf woman’s account of blending the public-private, deaf-hearing, and religious-secular worlds; how five Deaf female ASL teachers define “gender,” “feminism,” “sex,” and “patriarchy” in ASL and English; and 20th-century American Deaf beauty pageants that emphasize physicality while denying Deaf identity, yet also challenge mainstream notions of “the perfect body.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gallaudet University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050773070064,"sku":"9781563682933","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781563682933_p0.jpg?v=1763757621","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781563682933","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}