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This volume in 'The SAGE Reference Series on Disability' explores the arts and humanities within the lives of people with disabilities. It is one of 8 volumes in the issue-based and cross-disciplinary series, which incorporates links from varied fields making up Disability Studies as volumes examine topics central to the lives of individuals with disabilities and their families

In this probing exploration of what it means to be deaf, Brenda Brueggemann goes beyond any simple notion of identity politics to explore the very nature of identity itself. Looking at a variety of cultural texts, she brings her fascination with borders and between-places to expose and enrich our understanding of how deafness embodies itself in the world, in the visual, and in language. Taking on the creation of the modern deaf subject, Brueggemann ranges from the intersections of gender and deafness in the work of photographers Mary and Frances Allen at the turn of the last century, to the st

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.