Lend Me Your Ear: Rhetorical Study Of Deafness

Brenda Jo Brueggemann

This academic, but very readable study, challenges the hearing world's tradition that defines a Deaf person's lack of speech as a reason for ignoring their human identity. Instead, the author demands consideration of deafness in terms of Deaf culture, sign language and Deaf politics. Throughout the book there are interviews with individual Deaf people that the author augments with her own experiences as a Deaf person. Hardcover 336 pages 1999

£28.50