Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign Against Sign Language

Douglas C Baynton

This book explores American culture from the mid-19th century to 1920 via the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and others to suppress Sign Language. Baynton discovers that although the grounds have shifted, many still base decisions on the same metaphors and images that led to the misguided efforts to eradicate Sign. Paperback 228 pages 1999

£9.50