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.