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Mother Father Deaf: Living Between Sound and Silence
Paul M. Preston
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Description for Mother Father Deaf: Living Between Sound and Silence
Paperback. "Mother father deaf" is the phrase commonly used within the deaf community to refer to hearing children of deaf parents. Based on 150 interviews with adult hearing children of deaf parents, these stories challenge many of mainstream society's myths about hearing and deafness. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; JFFG; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 399.
“Mother father deaf” is the phrase commonly used within the Deaf community to refer to hearing children of deaf parents. These children grow up between two cultures, the Hearing and the Deaf, forever balancing the worlds of sound and silence. Paul Preston, one of these children, takes us to the place where Deaf and Hearing cultures meet, where families like his own embody the conflicts and resolutions of two often opposing world views.
Based on 150 interviews with adult hearing children of deaf parents throughout the United States, Mother Father Deaf examines the process of assimilation and cultural affiliation ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674587489
SKU
V9780674587489
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Ref
99-1
About Paul M. Preston
Paul Preston manages the recently created national Research and Training Center on Families of Adults with Disabilities, located at Through the Looking Glass, a nonprofit organization in Berkeley, California. He is also Research Associate in Medical Anthropology at the University of California, San Francisco.
Reviews for Mother Father Deaf: Living Between Sound and Silence
There is much more to the difference between being deaf and hearing than simply whether one hears or not. The two worlds are separate and different. Paul Preston offers us a unique view of those differences through his anthropological study of people who exist in both cultures, the hearing children of deaf parents… This book is informative and inviting… [Preston] ... Read more