TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nakamura,Karen
TI  - Deaf in Japan : signing and the politics of identity 
SN  - 9780801473562
AV  - HV2883 .N35 2006
U1  - 305.90820952 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Deaf
KW  - Japan
KW  - History
KW  - Japanese Sign Language
KW  - Group identity
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-215) and index; The politics of Japanese sign language -- The early history of the deaf in Japan -- Life history : Nakano Shizuyo, a prewar-generation deaf woman -- Middle-generation deaf in the postwar period -- Three postwar women's lives : Sano Hiroe, Horikawa Hiro, and Funata Hatsuko -- The postwar generation of deaf activists -- The Japanese Federation of the Deaf and the welfare state -- Deaf students in the post-mainstreaming era -- Life history : Yamashita Mayumi, a deaf youth in contemporary Japan -- Language wars and language politics, or, How an itinerant anthropologist introduced a new sign into the Japanese sign lexicon
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip069/2006007159.html
ER  -