TY  - BOOK
AU  - Corker,Mairian
TI  - Deaf and disabled, or deafness disabled?: towards a human rights perspective 
T2  - Disability, human rights, and society
SN  - 0335196993
AV  - HV2380. C69 1998
U1  - 305.908162 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Buckingham, Philadelphia
PB  - Open University Press
KW  - Deaf
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Discrimination against people with disabilities
KW  - Sociology of disability
KW  - Marginality, Social
N1  - 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
ER  -