Once upon a time: history and memory of Italian Deaf elderly signers

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents IX
3. Much more than a treasure: the life stories of elderly Deaf people 1
4. Part I: “For this experience, I am grateful to the elderly Deaf people”: Collecting and disseminating life stories
5. Conducting interviews with elderly Deaf people: opportunities and challenges 19
6. Making the life stories of Deaf seniors visible: a students’ exhibition 45
7. Part II: “I found out that deaf people could do many things”: Issues of culture and identity
8. Once upon a time: history and memory of Italian Deaf elderly signers 65
9. Deafness in Turkey 1930–2020: administrative, social, and cultural aspects 91
10. Pink sign: identity challenges, choices, and changes among elderly Deaf homosexuals in the Netherlands 129
11. Part III: “Apparently, one could hear airplanes, but we knew nothing”: Deaf lives in times of conflict and oppression
12. Impairment vs. disability: The paradoxical situation of deaf people during the German Nazi Regime 171
13. Forced sterilization of deaf people during the German Nazi Regime – a trauma and its compensations after 1945 197
14. Surviving a war of silence: Deaf people in Flanders during the Second World War 217
15. The Francoist dictatorship through the Deaf lens 247
16. Part IV: “He signs like me, we are the same”: Linguistic and educational perspectives
17. Uncovering the lived experiences of elderly Deaf Philadelphians 277
18. Time will tell: time and discourse as ‘motion through space’ in early Israeli Sign Language (ISL) 323
19. Part V: “Goodbye, hearing world!”: Creating a safe environment for the elderly Deaf
20. De Gelderhorst: a home full of signs 359
21. Growing old together: aging deaf people and the politics of belonging 383
22. List of contributors 403
23. Subject index 407
24. Name index (incl. associations, laws, and schools) 413