Deaf and unwanted? : marriage characteristics of deaf people in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Belgium: a comparative and cross-regional approach
In this article, the marriage characteristics of deaf men and women born in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Belgium are compared to each other, as well as to a group of non-deaf siblings and a group of Swedish deaf persons. The aim is to determine the extent to which the marriage pattern of deaf persons lined up with that of non-disabled persons and to see how experiences of disablement interacted with the environment in which persons dwelt. This article challenges the belief in a universal disability experience by arguing that although deaf individuals generally encountered more difficulti... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | article in journal |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2016 |
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Umeå universitet
Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier |
Schlagwörter: | Deaf / Belgium / Sweden / Marriage / eighteenth century / nineteenth century / History / Historia |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28546510 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-125374 |