This groundbreaking quantity introduces readers to the foremost ideas and debates in deaf reviews, providing views at the relevance and richness of deaf methods of being on the earth. In Open Your Eyes, major and rising students, nearly all of whom are deaf, give some thought to actual and cultural barriers of deaf locations and probe the complicated intersections of deaf identities with gender, sexuality, incapacity, family members, and race. jointly, they discover the function of sensory notion in developing group, redefine literacy in mild of signed languages, and delve into the profound clinical, social, and political dimensions of the incapacity label usually assigned to deafness.

Moving past proving the life of deaf tradition, Open Your Eyes indicates how the tradition contributes important insights on problems with id, language, and gear, and, eventually, demanding situations our culture’s obsession with normalcy. 

Contributors: Benjamin Bahan, Gallaudet U; Douglas C. Baynton, U of Iowa; Frank Bechter, U of Chicago; MJ Bienvenu, Gallaudet U; Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Ohio country U; Lennard J. Davis, U of Illinois, Chicago; Lindsay Dunn, Gallaudet U; Lawrence Fleischer, California country U, Northridge; Genie Gertz, California nation U, Northridge; Hilde Haualand, FAFO Institute; Robert Hoffmeister, Boston U; Tom Humphries, U of California, San Diego; Arlene Blumenthal Kelly, Gallaudet U; Marlon Kuntze, U of California, Berkeley; Paddy Ladd, U of Bristol; Harlan Lane, Northeastern U; Joseph J. Murray, U of Iowa; Carol Padden, U of California, San Diego.

H-Dirksen L. Bauman is professor and director of the graduate software in Deaf experiences at Gallaudet college. he's coeditor of Signing the physique Poetic: Essays in American signal Language Literature, government editor of the Deaf experiences electronic Journal, and government manufacturer and codirector of the documentary movie Audism Unveiled.