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Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language
Douglas C. Baynton
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| #743685 in Books | 1998-06-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.90 x6.00l,.89 | File type: PDF | 235 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent!|By Wayne Hall|Really well-written history of cultural attitudes towards deafness and the hearing impaired, and how they have changed over time.|2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Andrea Withey|Very interesting read made me more knowledgeable in regards to the Deaf Culture.|2 of 2 people|.com |Douglas Baynton has written a learned history of the varied and sundry attempts that have been made to prevent deaf people from communicating with their hands. Forbidden Signs intelligently explores the cultural aspects of deafness, laying out the
Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language among deaf people.
The ensuing debate over sign language invoked such fundamental questions as what distinguished Americans from non-Americans, civilized people from "savages," humans from animals, men from women, the natur...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language | Douglas C. Baynton. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
