Deaf and disabled, or deafness disabled? : towards a human rights perspective / Mairian Corker.
Material type: TextSeries: Disability, human rights, and societyPublisher: Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1998Description: 165 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0335196993
- 9780335196999
- 0335197000
- 9780335197002
- 305.908162
- HV2380. C69 1998
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-159) and index.
Series editor's preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. First principles -- The cultural backdrop -- The logic of essentialism -- The social agenda and the 'right' to self-definition -- The political agenda -- 2. Refocusing -- Refocusing -- The postmodernist agenda -- The logic of 'both-and' and cultural processes -- The systemic approach and simultaneous oppressions -- 3. Meaning what we say and saying what we mean -- In the sensory realm -- Discourse and the construction of identities -- The postsctructuralist agenda -- Discourse and power -- Cybernetic models and network metaphors -- 4. Books without pictures -- Perspectives on social justice -- Special needs and human rights -- A critique of language education -- Anti-oppressive environments and equal opportunities for learning -- 5. The power of well-being -- Deaf well-being -- The difference principle and cultures of care -- Value-added helping? -- The power of well-being -- 6. Running twice as fast -- The Disability Discrimination Act - legislating for change? -- The case for Genuine Occupational Qualification -- Organizational culture in context -- Access to misinformation -- The myth of the deaf role model -- 7. The time has come. -- Glossary -- References -- Index.
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