by Brenda Jo Brueggemann
Ohio State University
Currents in Electronic Literacy Spring 2001 (4), <http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/spr01/brueg.html>
Endnotes
8. I am currently at work on a book-length project about the (feminist) rhetorical construction of �authority� in the three largest ancillary fields surrounding deafness�deaf education, audiology, and sign language interpreting�since those fields are occupied by almost 90% women in each case. My chapter on sign language interpreting, called �Interpreting Women� examines some of the tensions and ethical dynamics between these (largely female) interpreters and their �clients� as they work to give rhetorical agency�to bring �voice��to deaf people in individual interactions, public forums, and in scenes of medical, legal, and consumer encounters.