Deaf identity and social images in nineteenth-century France / Anne T. Quartararo.

Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press, [2008], ©2008.

xi, 285 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Social images of deaf people, 1780-1850 -- Constructing a deaf community in revolutionary France, 1789-1799 -- Learning the language of deaf people : educational opportunity, Auguste Bébian and the controversy over spoken language, 1800-1840 -- The varieties of deaf education, 1830-1900 -- Molding a deaf identity : deaf leaders, banquets and community rituals, 1830-1880 -- A new era of deaf activism : associations and leadership in the late nineteenth-century.