Women and Deafness - Double Visions : Double Visions

Introduction vii Part One In and Out of the Community Editors' Introduction 3(2) Family Matters: Female Dynamics within Deaf Schools Jessica Lee 5(16) Was Helen Keller Deaf? Blindness, Deafness, and Multiple Identities Kim E. Nielsen 21(19) The Extended Family: Deaf Women in Organizations Sara Robinson 40(17) Deaf Women and Inequality in Educational Attainment and Occupational Status: Is Deafness or Femaleness to Blame? Sharon Barnartt 57(24) Part Two (Women's) Authority and Shaping Deafness Editors' Introduction 81(3) Marcelina Ruiz Ricote y Fernandez: Nineteenth-Century Feminist Educator of Deaf and Blind Girls Susan Plann 84(26) The Ladies Take Charge: Women Teachers in the Education of Deaf Students Margret Winzer 110(20) "Like Ordinary Hearing Children": Mothers Raising Offspring according to Oralist Dictates Emily K. Abel 130(17) Merging Two Worlds Gina A. Oliva and Linda Risser Lytle 147(20) Part Three Reading Deaf Women Editors' Introduction 167(3) Deaf Eyes: The Allen Sisters' Photography, 1885-1920 Brenda Jo Brueggemann 170(19) The Aesthetics of Linguistic Envy: Deafness and Muteness in Children of a Lesser God and The Piano Jennifer L. Nelson 189(16) "Slain in the Spirit" Kristen Harmon 205(21) How Deaf Women Produce Gendered Signs Arlene Blumenthal Kelly 226(16) "Beautiful, though Deaf": The Deaf American Beauty Pageant Susan Burch 242(21) Bibliography 263(22) Contributors 285(4) Index 289