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 …

This chapter addresses three primary questions: What is disability culture? What is disability
studies? How do these two interact? Disability culture is explored as a movement “from the …

US was conceived as a companion book to Public Health and Disability (Drum, Krahn, &
Bersani 2009) co-edited by community integration colleague Dr. Henry J. Bersani, Jr. who …

Can touch have a genre? A combination of pressure, texture, and temperature, touch is one
of the most difficult senses to study because “it is composed of so many interacting …

Carnegie library. As a professional historian, biographies are my staple when I do not want
to “work” but feel obliged to do so. A good (auto) biography satisfies my inner gossip, carries …

Reach all of your English language learners with the effective and engaging approaches in
this book. It's filled with practical tools, strategies, and real-world vignettes that will help you …

Biographies of people with disabilities emphasising on their humanity and the value of this
very special human experience may lead to questioning common assumptions about …

Can James Joyce's Ulysses be read with the ears instead of the eyes? This essay considers
what difference it makes to listen to one of the modernist era's most formally experimental …

How were deaf adults interacting with their hearing peers during the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries? What kind of friendships were being forged, and was there a sense of …

Let me begin at the beginning for the gathering of texts that make up this special issue. Let
me start with the original idea for the Narrating Deaf Lives conference (where each of these …