Acknowledgements; Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations; Plates; Introduction; Chapter 1 Deaf Communities; Chapter 2 Deafness and Deafhood in Western Civilisation -- Towards the Development of a New Conceptual Framework; Chapter 3 Twentieth Century Discourses; Chapter 4 Culture -- Definitions and Theories; Chapter 5 Deaf Culture: Discourses and Definitions; Chapter 6 Researching Deaf Communities -- Subaltern Researcher Methodologies; Chapter 7 The Roots of Deaf Culture: Residential Schools; Chapter 8 The Roots of Deaf Culture: Deaf Clubs and Deaf Subalterns
Summary
This text presents a "Traveller's Guide" to deaf culture, starting from the premise that deaf cultures have an important contribution to make to other academic disciplines, and human lives in general
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-495) and index
