Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood

Introduction - Walking the tight trope 1. Deaf Community 2. Deafness and Deafhood in Western Civilisation: Towards the Development of a New Conceptual Framework 3. Twentieth Century Discourses on Deafness and Deafhood 4. Culture: Definitions and Theories 5. Deaf Culture: Discourses and Definitions 6. Researching Deaf Communities: Subaltern-Researcher Methodologies 7. The Roots of Deaf Culture: The Residential School 8. The Roots of Deaf Culture: Deaf Clubs and Deaf Subalterns 9. Subaltern Rebels and Deafhood: The National Dimension 10. Conclusions and Implications 11. Afterword: Imagined Futures Further Reading/ Appendices