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Much of my work thus owes a debt to scholars in general women’s and gender history. 3 (1919): 59. 10. Deaf contestants allowed themselves to be inspected, judged, and admired. 7. But for many contemporary deaf people, Whitestone’s “overcoming” strategy went too far. It is nevertheless culturally understood that sign language is the preferred mode of communication at these pageants.

Two months earlier, Yates had posed for the cover of the New York Times Magazine, signing the word freedom for an article entitled “Defiantly Deaf.”44 Eminently comfortable among deaf people, Yates defined “inclusion”—a common term for mainstreaming deaf children into public schools—as “being Deaf in a school for the deaf” and “being Deaf in a Deaf environment.”45 Like Whitestone and all beauty queens, however, Yates accentuated the need for all deaf people to get along, promoting harmony and tolerance.

42. . 29. As one official website explains: There was one aspect of the arts that had yet to be explored—the world of drama. . A 1925 Silent Worker article noted, for example, that “good health is so radiant an attribute that mere ‘irregular fatures’[sic] are almost, if not entirely, unnoticed in their possessor.

Often limited by lower reading skills, Deaf women may have greater difficulty accessing the dense feminist critiques that proliferate in academic and activist circles. While deaf women’s cultural status, when compared to their hearing peers, remains blurry and muted, cultural values regarding oralism and signs—as expressed in beauty pageants—have certainly clarified in the past twenty-five years.

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Brenda Jo Brueggemann

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Aetna Endowed Chair of Writing

English


Co-Editor of Disability Studies Quarterly.

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    See “Miss Deaf Philadelphia,” Pennsylvania Society News 11, no. 34.

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