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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Baynton, Douglas C., author.     Subjects     Deaf -- Means of communication -- United States -- History.     Sign language -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History.     Deaf -- United States -- Social conditions.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Baynton, Douglas C., author.       by title:      Forbidden signs : Am...         MARC Display

Forbidden signs : American culture and the campaign against sign language / Douglas C. Baynton. by Baynton, Douglas C., author. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998. Subjects Deaf -- Means of communication -- United States -- History.   Sign language -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History.   Deaf -- United States -- Social conditions. ISBN:  9780226039640 (paperback) 0226039641 (paperback) Description:  xi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Edition:  Paperback edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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."-- Publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Library For The Blind and Print Disabled R -- Reference R 419 Ba Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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