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The Social Condition of Deaf People - The Story of a Woman and a Hearing Society (Hardcover)
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The Social Condition of Deaf People - The Story of a Woman and a Hearing Society (Hardcover)
Series: Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC]
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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 important:
Minorities that we don't even suspect we have power over observe us
in turn. Majorities exert power over minorities by influencing the
environment and institutions that simplify or hinder lives:
language, mindsets, representations, norms, the use of professional
power. Based on data collected by Eurostat, this volume provides
the first discussion of statistics on the condition of Deaf people
in a series of European countries, concerning education, labor,
gender. This creates a new opportunity to discuss inequalities on
the basis of data. The case studies in this volume reconstruct
untold moments of great advancement in Deaf history, successful
didactics supporting bilingualism, the reasons why Deaf empowerment
for and by Deaf people does and does not succeed. A work of
empowerment is effective if it acts on a double level: the
community to be empowered and society at large, resulting in a
transformation of society as a whole. This book provides
instruments to work towards such a transformation.
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