Deaf in Japan

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ISBN: 9780801473562 | 080147356X
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 8/1/2006

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Until the mid-1970s, deaf people in Japan had few legal rights and little social recognition. Legally, they were classified as minors or mentally deficient, unable to obtain driver's licenses or sign contracts and wills. Many worked at menial tasks or wer

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List of Illustrations	xi
Note on Transliterations and Translations	xiii
Preface	xv
Acknowledgments	xix
CHAPTER ONE Introduction	1	(12)
CHAPTER TWO The Politics of Japanese Sign Language	13	(18)
CHAPTER THREE The Early History of the Deaf in Japan	31	(14)
CHAPTER FOUR Life History: Nakano Shizuyo A Prewar-Generation Deaf Woman	45
CHAPTER FIVE Middle-Generation Deaf in the Postwar Period	6	(64)
CHAPTER SIX Three Postwar Women's Lives Sano Hiroe, Horikawa Hiro, and Funata Hatsuko	70	(23)
CHAPTER SEVEN The Postwar Generation of Deaf Activists	93	(17)
CHAPTER EIGHT The Japanese Federation of the Deaf and the Welfare State	110	(23)
CHAPTER NINE Deaf Students in the Post-Mainstreaming Era	133	(17)
CHAPTER TEN Life History: Yamashita Mayumi A Deaf Youth in Contemporary Japan	150	(14)
CHAPTER ELEVEN Language Wars and Language Politics; or, How an Itinerant Anthropologist Introduced a New Sign into the Japanese Sign Lexicon	164	(19)
CHAPTER TWELVE Conclusions	183	(10)
Glossary	193	(1)
Japanese Terms	193	(6)
English Terms	199	(2)
Bibliography	201	(1)
English Sources	201	(9)
Japanese Sources	210	(7)
Index	217

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