Forbidden signs : American culture and the campaign against sign language
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998, ©1996.
Edition
Pbk. ed.
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xi, 228 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Port Orford Public Library - Adult/General New - Nonfiction | 419 BAYTON, DOUGLAS | Available |
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Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998, ©1996.
Format
Book
Edition
Pbk. ed.
Language
English
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language among deaf people. The ensuing debate over sign language invoked such fundamental questions as what distinguished Americans from non-Americans, civilized people from "savages," humans from animals, men from women, the natural from the unnatural, and the normal from the abnormal. An advocate of the return to sign language, Baynton found that although the grounds of the debate have shifted, educators still base decisions on many of the same metaphors and images that led to the misguided efforts to eradicate sign language
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Baynton, D. C. (19981996). Forbidden signs: American culture and the campaign against sign language (Pbk. ed.). University of Chicago Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Baynton, Douglas C. 19981996. Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language. University of Chicago Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Baynton, Douglas C. Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language University of Chicago Press, 19981996.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Baynton, Douglas C. Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language Pbk. ed., University of Chicago Press, 19981996.
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