Deaf Women: Collective Biographies

Yvonne Pitrois (French) and Corinne Rocheleau (Canadian) are two Deaf women writers discussed in this book.

The following artists are profiled: Ann Silver, Maggie Lee Sayre, Regina Hughes, Claire Bergman, Lee Ivey, Mary Thornley, Susan Dupor, Christy MacKinnon Maxcy, Charlotte Coman, Frances Allen, Mary Allen, Blanche Lazzell, Mary Rappazzo, Jessica Geiger, and Betty Miller. See DVD of Deborah Sonnenstrahl lecturing on her book available in the 1st floor Deaf media collection, N8356.D43 D42 2004.

This is about people in the UK. Learn about royalty such as Queen Alexandra, Princess Plantagenet, and Princess Joanna as well as other deaf women.

Harry Lang and Bonnie Meath-Lang donated materials used in the research of this book. Check out Deaf Studies Archives, 3rd floor for this collection.

Check out the online videos Famous Deaf Americans Part 1 via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogrVm2tXWks and Part 2 via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMxDybUzRG8

Read about Helen Keller (DB advocate), Laura Redden Searing (writer and poetess), Alice of Battenberg (Princess and Nun), Juliette Gordon Low (Girl Scouts' Founder) and Harriet Martineau (Writer and 'mother of sociology').

Find information about influential Deaf women scientists, such as physicians, astronomers, and many other fields. There is information about the barriers Deaf women experienced in the fields of science. Harry Lang donated research materials he used for this book to Deaf Studies Archive, 3rd floor. Check out his collection for articles about Deaf women scientists.

Onalee Cooper is a Rochester Deaf Native American woman whose father was a chief. Her father was Chief Clinton Rickard and we have his biography in our collection. Check out the DVD about her ---HV2534.C66 O63 2007.