Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-284) and index.
Contents:
Family matters : female dynamics within deaf schools / Jessica Lee -- Was Helen Keller deaf? : blindness, deafness, and multiple identities / Kim E. Nielsen -- The extended family : deaf women in organizations / Sara Robinson -- Deaf women and inequality in educational attainment and occupational status : is deafness or femaleness to blame? / Sharon Barnartt -- Marcelina Ruiz Ricote y Fernández : nineteenth-century feminist educator of deaf and blind girls / Susan Plann -- The ladies take charge : women teachers in the education of deaf students / Margret Winzer -- "Like ordinary hearing children" : mothers raising offspring according to oralist dictates / Emily K. Abel -- Merging two worlds / Gina A. Oliva and Linda Risser Lytle -- Deaf eyes : the Allen sisters' photography, 1885-1920 / Brenda Jo Brueggemann -- The aesthetics of linguistic envy : deafness and muteness in Children of a lesser God and The piano / Jennifer L. Nelson -- "Slain in the spirit" / Kristen Harmon -- How deaf women produce gendered signs / Arlene Blumenthal Kelly -- "Beautiful, though deaf" : the deaf American beauty pageant / Susan Burch.
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