Product Description: Deaf people in New Zealand are often little known outside their own culture. People of the Eye brings their world to life in personal histories translated into English with a series of photographs of the deaf community. The storytellers are both old and young, and they reflect both the diversity and commonality of deaf experience; the painful lives of a generation brought up forbidden to use sign language contrasted with the confidence of young people using New Zealand Sign Language as they attend school and assert "deaf pride...read more

Product Description: The tradition of rhetoric established 2,500 years ago emphasizes the imperative of speech as a defining characteristic of reason. But in her new book Lend Me Your Ear, Brenda Jo Brueggemann exposes this tradition’s effect of disallowing deaf people human identity because of their natural silence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This is a post-modern examination of the search for identity in deafness and its relationship to the prevalent hearing culture that has marginalized deaf people. The book's aim is to disrupt normal thought about the popularly considered condition of deafness as a physical deficiency.

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Product Description: A work examining the ways in which deafness functions in the cultural, social and work context. A particular emphasis is placed upon early family life and the formation of deaf identity. At the same time, the isolation imposed by deafness is highlighted, and the construction of difference analyzed...read more

This exploration into the world of the deaf looks at what it is like to be outsiders, the deaf community, the identities of the deaf, and their interaction with the hearing