TY - BOOK AU - Söderfeldt,Ylva TI - From Pathology to Public Sphere: The German Deaf Movement 1848-1914 T2 - Disability Studies. Körper - Macht - Differenz SN - 9783837621198 AV - HV2746 .S63 2014 U1 - 363.1780 PY - 2014///] CY - Bielefeld : PB - transcript Verlag, KW - Deaf -- Germany -- History -- 19th century KW - Deaf -- Germany -- History -- 20th century KW - Deaf -- Political activity -- Germany -- History KW - Associations KW - Body KW - Cultural Studies KW - Deaf Community KW - Disability Studies KW - Disability KW - German History KW - History of Medicine KW - Social History KW - Social Inequality KW - Social Movements KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities KW - bisacsh N1 - restricted access N2 - In the late 19th century, the so-called »German Method«, which employed spoken language in deaf education, triumphed all over the Western world. At the same time as deaf German schoolchildren were taught to articulate and read lips, an emancipation movement of signing deaf adults emerged across the German Empire.This book tells the story of how deaf people moved from being isolated objects of administration or education, depending on welfare or working in the fields, to becoming an urban middle class collective with claims of self-determination. Main questions addressed in this first comprehensive work on one of the world's oldest movements of disabled people include how deaf organisations emerged, what they fought for, and who was left behind UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783839421192 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783839421192/original ER -