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Agatha Tiegel Hanson is a seminal figure in Deaf history, and this biography illuminates her many contributions as a writer, activist, and leader working to advance the rights of Deaf people and women.

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"""Why were so few women's names in the annals of the signing deaf, especially during the women's rights movement? Katherine Jankowski offers a few clues to the 'woman question' in her biography, Agatha Tiegel Hanson: Our Places in the Sun."" --Cristina Hartmann ""H-Net Reviews"""

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Kathy Jankowski is a former dean of Gallaudet University's Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center. She was previously the first Deaf and first female superintendent of the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf and the Central North Carolina School for the Deaf. Jankowski has also been a communications professor, a program director at a nonprofit advocacy organization, a school counselor, and an American Sign Language instructor. She holds a bachelor's degree from Gallaudet University, a master's degree from the University of Arizona, and a doctorate from the University of Maryland. She is also the author of Deaf Empowerment: Emergence, Struggle, and Rhetoric, and has published chapters and articles in books and other publications.

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