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Open Your Eyes Deaf Studies Talking H-Dirksen L. Bauman, editor Table of Contents		$24.95 paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-4619-7 ISBN-10: 0-8166-4619-8 $75.00 cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-4618-0 ISBN-10: 0-8166-4618-X
A landmark work on the history, future, and implications of deaf studies. This groundbreaking volume introduces readers to the key concepts and debates in deaf studies, offering perspectives on the relevance and richness of deaf ways of being in the world. In Open Your Eyes, leading and emerging scholars, the majority of whom are deaf, consider physical and cultural boundaries of deaf places and probe the complex intersections of deaf identities with gender, sexuality, disability, family, and race. Together, they explore the role of sensory perception in constructing community, redefine literacy in light of signed languages, and delve into the profound medical, social, and political dimensions of the disability label often assigned to deafness. Moving beyond proving the existence of deaf culture, Open Your Eyes shows how the culture contributes vital insights on issues of identity, language, and power, and, ultimately, challenges our culture’s obsession with normalcy. “Open Your Eyes is amazingly cohesive in the ways the essays foreshadow and postilluminate (to coin a phrase) issues raised by the others despite the diverse nature of the authors and their essays. Open Your Eyes is a thought-provoking book that Deaf Studies scholars and students should all have in their libraries.” —Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education Contributors: Benjamin Bahan, Douglas C. Baynton, Frank Bechter, MJ Bienvenu, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Lennard J. Davis, Lindsay Dunn, Lawrence Fleischer, Genie Gertz, Hilde Haualand, Robert Hoffmeister, Tom Humphries, Arlene Blumenthal Kelly, Marlon Kuntze, Paddy Ladd, Harlan Lane, Joseph J. Murray, Carol Padden. H-Dirksen L. Bauman is professor and director of the graduate program in deaf studies at Gallaudet University. He is coeditor of Signing the Body Poetic: Essays in American Sign Language Literature, executive editor of Deaf Studies Digital Journal, and executive producer and codirector of the documentary film Audism Unveiled. 308 pages | 29 b&w photos | 7 x 10 | 2007   TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Listening to Deaf Studies H-Dirksen L. Bauman Part I. Framing Deaf Studies 1. Talking Culture and Culture Talking Tom Humphries 2. Colonialism and Resistance: A Brief History of Deafhood Paddy Ladd 3. The Deaf Convert Culture and Its Lessons for Deaf Theory Frank Bechter Part II. Deaf Perception and Community 4. Upon the Formation of a Visual Variety of the Human Race Benjamin Bahan 5. Coequality and Transnational Studies: Understanding Deaf Lives Joseph J. Murray 6. Sound and Belonging: What Is a Community? Hilde Haualand Part III. Language and Literacy 7. On the Disconstruction of (Sign) Language in the Western Tradition: A Deaf Reading of Plato’s Cratylus H-Dirksen L. Bauman 8. Turning Literacy Inside Out Marlon Kuntze 9. Critical Pedagogy and ASL Videobooks Lawrence Fleischer Part IV. Places and Borders 10. The Decline of Deaf Clubs in the United States: A Treatise on the Problem of Place Carol Padden 11. Think-Between: A Deaf Studies Commonplace Book Brenda Jo Brueggemann 12. Border Crossings by Hearing Children of Deaf Parents: The Lost History of Codas Robert Hoffmeister Part V. Intersections and Identities 13. Dysconscious Audism: A Theoretical Proposition Genie Gertz 14. The Burden of Racism and Audism Lindsay Dunn 15. Where Is Deaf HERstory? Arlene Blumenthal Kelly 16. Queer as Deaf: Intersections MJ Bienvenu Part VI. The Question of Disability 17. Do Deaf People Have a Disability? Harlan Lane 18. Beyond Culture: Deaf Studies and the Deaf Body Douglas C. Baynton 19. Postdeafness Lennard J. Davis Postscript: Gallaudet Protest and the Future of the Deaf Public Voice H-Dirksen L. Bauman Contributors Index

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