Deaf and Disability Studies: Do They Tango?

Abstract

Reviews the book, Deaf and disability studies: Interdisciplinary perspectives edited by S. Burch and A. Kafer (2010). The book explores deaf identity discourses, describes alliances between deaf and hearing companions and within gender and disability activism and the relationship between these two fields. The book demonstrates how deaf people's affirmations of identity are situated within different moments in time and in different places around the world and explores how deaf people use and amend this situatedness strategically to attain successful alliances. Instead of offering one read-through to get a grasp on interdisciplinary perspectives, this book rather invites itself to be used in a selective way. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved)