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This work describes an eventful and formative time in Australian Deaf history the interwar years of the 1920s and 1930s. During this period, Deaf people challenged the authority of the dominant welfare organizations (Deaf Societies), which were largely controlled by hearing people and run as charitable institutions. These developments were influenced by wider social movements in Australian society, such as the articulation of minority groups as citizens, and their search for autonomy and equal rights.

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Carty's book is both a testament to the political will and collective agency of earlier generations of deaf people and a reminder of how a charity model recurs today in the lives of deaf people and some organizations professing to serve them. -- Disability & Society This is a highly illuminating study which will be of value to historians interested in the development of the Deaf community both in Australia and internationally. The vivid narration and careful attention to detail is absorbing...Managing Their Own Affairs represents a useful contribution to a field of Deaf history too commonly dominated by studies of Britain and the USA. -- H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences

This is a highly illuminating study which will be of value to historians interested in the development of the Deaf community both in Australia and internationally. The vivid narration and careful attention to detail is absorbing...Managing Their Own Affairs represents a useful contribution to a field of Deaf history too commonly dominated by studies of Britain and the USA. --H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences

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Breda Carty is a conjoint lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Newcastle in Australia.

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