Research Catalog

Title

Shouting won't help : why I - and 50 million other Americans - can't hear you / Katherine Bouton.

Author

Bouton, Katherine, 1947-

Publication

New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2013.

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Description

viii, 276 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

A memoir from the New York editor and writer in which she explores the invisible disability of deafness from personal, psychological, and physiological perspectives.

Subject

• Bouton, Katherine
• Bouton, Katherine, 1947-
• Women
• Persons With Hearing Impairments
• Hearing Loss
• Deaf women > New York > Biography
• Deafness
• New York City
• New York (State)
• New York

Genre/Form

• Personal Narrative
• Autobiographies
• Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Losing it -- Voices : Ben Luxon -- Why? -- Voices : Ross Wank -- Bring in 'da noise! -- Voices : Jacqui Metzger -- You can't see it, but I can't hear you -- Voices : Toni Iacolucci -- Am I deaf or just dumb? -- Voices : Jay Alan Zimmerman -- "They don't scream, 'I'm wearing hearing aids!!!'" -- Voices : Richard Einhorn -- And then you have to pay for it -- Voices : Robert Astle -- Cyborg : cochlear implants -- Voices : Lorie Singer -- Wig tape, and that pig outdoors -- Voices : Karin Olsoe -- How to be a deaf theater editor, and other challenges of real life -- Voices : Isaiah Jackson -- The ugly stepsisters : tinnitus and vertigo -- Voices : Melissa -- Chicks and fish do it. Why can't we? -- Voices : Eugene Kaplan -- In the land of the near deaf.

ISBN

• 9780374263041 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0374263043 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012029096

OCLC

• 795756438
• SCSB-11429477

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library