"The Eighth Volume in the ""Deaf Lives Series" "Deaf Lives in
Contrast: Two Women's Stories" might seem to bring together polar
opposites in the broad range of deaf experience. Yet, as these
narratives unfold, the reader will recognize that common threads
run through them despite their different circumstances. Mary V.
Rivers, who came from a "dirt poor" Cajun family in Louisiana, was
only 17 when she married Bruce Rivers, a member of the U.S. Air
Force during World War II. She bore three children in quick
succession, all boys, and traveled with them to Europe with her
husband. When her third son Clay was nearly two, however, she
learned that he was deaf. From that time on, she devoted her life
to securing a good education for Clay. Dvora Shurman's parents,
deaf Jewish immigrants from Russia, met in Chicago after World War
I. Both were educated orally, declaring "I am not born deaf.
Signing only for born-deaf." They did sign, but they also wanted
hearing children, stemming from their own sense of devaluation.
Shurman lived a dual life in the deaf and hearing worlds. She saw
herself as her deaf parents' ears, their voice to the hearing
world, and as sharing with her mother the task of being mother. The
resonating theme that echoes with both of these women centers on
their resentment of the treatment received by their deaf loved
ones. Early in her life, Shurman adopted a slogan with her sister,
"'It's Not Fair, ' to rebel against the shaming, the demeaning, our
family suffered." After years of struggling for her son, Rivers
asserts that "deaf people have a right to prove themselves as first
class citizens." Their uncommon stories reveal that they share more
in common, a belief in equalrights for all, deaf and hearing.
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