Forbidden Signs, New edition Edition
American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language
$89.61
- Paperback
235 pages
- Release Date
21 June 1998
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 fro…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780226039640 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0226039641 |
| Author: | Douglas C. Baynton |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Imprint: | University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 235 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 21 June 1998 |
| Weight: | 397g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 15mm x 2mm |
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About The Author
Douglas C. Baynton
Douglas C. Baynton is professor of history at the University of Iowa, where he also teaches courses in the American Sign Language program.
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