| Between Worlds: Deaf Women, Work and Intersections of Gender and Ability Contributor(s): Najarian, Cheryl G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415805724 ISBN-13: 9780415805728 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $52.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2009 Annotation: This book illustrates the struggles of Deaf women as they negotiate their family, educational, and work lives. It demonstrates how these women face the various obstacles that are put before them and how they work to negotiate their identities in the Deaf community, hearing world, and the places 'in between.' |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Family & Relationships | Learning Disabilities - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 331.408 |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.66 lbs) 198 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Physically Challenged |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The purpose of this book is to illustrate the struggles of Deaf women as they negotiate their family, educational, and work lives. This study demonstrates how these women resist and overcome the various obstacles that are put before them as well as how they work to negotiate their identities as Deaf women in the Deaf community, hearing world, and the places 'in between.' The scope of the book traces these women's lives in these three major sectors of their lives and provides a discussion of the implications for other linguistic minorities. |