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Bug : deaf identity and internal revolution /
"Christopher Jon Heuer lost his hearing early, but not before "being able to hear a lot as a kid." He also received a good education, both in a speech-oriented setting and a signing environment. These varied experiences provided him with the perfect background to write about biases he...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
Gallaudet University Press,
©2007.
©2007 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine derived contents note: Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: On Small Things Easily Squished (and Alternative Destinies)
- I Choose the Green Crayon
- Bald Men Grow Hair When They Want To
- The "Must Put Pickle" Mentality
- Campfires in Boxer Shorts-Confessions of a Hearing Aid-Less Exhibitionist
- Pushed into Faith Healing
- Deaf Man Killed by Flying Golf Ball-A Eulogy of Small Accomplishments
- I Am Not Your Poster Child
- Corresponding Oval
- Chris, Amy, and the Floating Motion Sickness Pills
- Five Beers Away
- Christmas Is Filling up a Dinky Little '01 Toyota Corolla Gas Tank
- Responsibility Is Not a Burden
- One Guy vs. 7 Billion! Can He Win? Can He?!?
- "I Don't Understand" vs. "You're Not Making Yourself Understood"
- Praying for the Hell's Angel
- Noise Paranoia
- I Stopped Being Disabled and Nobody Knows
- a lot of bullets
- Value beyond ASL, Value beyond Breasts
- Plastic Souls
- Koko Want
- Point A to Point B Should Be a Straight Line
- But I Don't Want to Buy a Deaf Person!
- Fares
- Babes from Space!
- I Worship Cochlear Implants!
- Have Cell Phone, Am God
- Shark and Camel
- One Roll of Tape and Your Whole World Collapses
- Minority = Pathology
- The Real World-Bigger than You Think
- A Bit Less Hearing, a Bit Less "hearing," But a Bit More of Both
- Hangman
- Cash My Check, You Flying Brick-Headed Rat-Pole Witch!
- What Criteria for "Well-Meaning?"
- Popping the Normal Pill
- Stuck
- Empathy Is Not Pity
- Reborn, Karma-Style
- He May Not Understand, but He Still Ranks a Five
- Why Must We Know?
- Red Is Stop, Deaf Is.?
- That's You, That's Your Beer-Keep Them Separate
- Guess What? My Hearing Ancestors Had Sex Too!
- Deaf Rumor Mills-The Surest Path to Absolute Freedom
- Backstabbers Aim for Your Back, so Why Cover Your Ass?
- I Am a Crab
- Who Says Oralism Failed?
- He Wrote about Ring Bologna and Disappeared
- Spleen Gone Blues
- Rubella Bulge
- Footballs at $1,400 Each
- You Don't Have 100 percent to Give
- Those Who Play by the Rules
- Never Get Mad without Your Prescription
- Departure
- Move On from Milan
- Why Deaf People No Go Boom
- Making Deaf Awareness Day Effective
- Just Duck and They'll Shoot Each Other!
- Conflict
- Nietzsche's Downside
- Advice on Tennis and Pain
- Missing the Bounce
- Institutionalized Just Like You
- Dishes Done, Institution-Style!
- Research-The Best Way to Avoid Real Answers
- The Sign for Administrator
- When Your Cat Is Passive-Aggressive
- Invalidation: The Mind-Game Gift That Keeps on Giving!
- Institutions for the Deaf? Pfft
- Guys in Ties? One Tug Closer to Strangulation!
- White Dress Shirts-Making the World Safe for Workplace Projection!
- The Tyranny of Polyester
- It's Vietnam All over Again!
- My Son, the Manchurian Candidate!
- Engineering Efficient Institutions
- The Lie of Dependency
- In the Depths of Space, No One Can Lipread Your Scream
- You're Always Caught in Someone's Machine
- Visible Scars
- It Wasn't Self-Pity That Stopped Me from Becoming a Telemarketer
- If
- Grant Me the Wisdom
- The Starving African Children Ain't Got Nothin' on Us
- Life Is Fairer When You Get Mugged
- A Message in a Bottle from the Governor of Reality (Hopefully You Can Grab This without
- Rocking the Boat)
- Man Up, Women!
- Unfortunately, Now You Can't Get a Deaf President Out of Office
- When Enough Do, Most Will
- " Anything Except Hear," Including Believe Inspirational Bullshit
- Another Problem with "Deaf People Can."
- Learn to Recognize a Smokescreen from a Smoke Job
- The Economics of Presence
- Why the Deaf Education Teacher Went to Hell
- "We Can Save the Deaf!" (The Official Deaf Education Fight Song)
- On Being Brave
- I Thought You Were KGB!
- Don't Stop with Dreams
- Strip Club Literacy
- ASL Is a Visual Language Just Like Printed English!
- Let's Bring Back "Deaf and Dumb"
- Sometimes Things Break Off
- Parenthood in the Blizzard
- Denial Rules Everything
- Coping
- The Economy of Love and Paying Attention
- Hearing Parents Know
- The Best Defense Is a Good Disqualification
- The Age of Digital Boob Magic
- Paternalism and Sleeping Cats
- Murderball
- Final Notes for Hearing/Nonsigning Parents
- Afterword.