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Deaf identity and social images in nineteenth-century France /

A depiction of the struggle for Deaf French people to preserve their cultural heritage from the French Revolution in 1789 to their social activism against oralism through 1900.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Quartararo, Anne T. (Anne Therese), 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press, ©2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Social images of deaf people, 1780-1850
  • Constructing a deaf community in revolutionary France, 1789-1799
  • Learning the language of deaf people : educational opportunity, Auguste Bébian and the controversy over spoken language, 1800-1840
  • The varieties of deaf education, 1830-1900
  • Molding a deaf identity : deaf leaders, banquets and community rituals, 1830-1880
  • A new era of deaf activism : associations and leadership in the late nineteenth-century.