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The Social Condition of Deaf People

The Story of a Woman and a Hearing Society

Sara Trovato Anna Folchi

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English
De Gruyter Mouton
23 May 2022
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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Imprint:   De Gruyter Mouton
Country of Publication:   Germany
Dimensions:   Height: 230mm,  Width: 155mm, 
Weight:   792g
ISBN:   9783110762839
ISBN 10:   3110762838
Series:   Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC]
Pages:   465
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Anna Folchi and Sara Trovato, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Paris, France.

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