Frontmatter -- Contents -- A duet as an introduction -- 1a Hearing people. A larger sphere and a smaller sphere -- 1b Hearing people. Power issues in Michel Foucault's framework, and a society to share -- 2a My origins -- 2b Good reasons for the right to sign languages -- 3a A beautiful childhood -- 3b Deaf education results in ten European countries: Equitability, accessibility, and accountability of educational systems -- 4a An inadequate education at school, an effective education at home -- 4b Building written production in Deaf students. The "Free text writing" workshop in an excellent Italian bilingual school -- 5a Great history from my perspective: Student protests following 1968 -- 5b Speaking for oneself: Language and power in the Italian deaf community -- 6a First jobs -- 6b Deaf people from school to labor in ten European countries -- 7a Deaf awareness -- 7b Deaf President then. Political pluralism in the unification of Deaf associations in liberated Italy -- 8a Theatrical activity. Joseph Castronovo's story -- 8b A genial man in the wrong institutional environment. Deaf empowerment in Italian and French theatre experiences -- 9a A citizen of the world -- 9b Theories about deafness: Disability, culture, identity -- 10a Engaging for my community -- 10b Hypothesis on policy evaluation and school legislation: The effects of access to education, mainstreaming and instructional bilingualism -- 11a Research work -- 11b How society at large can become inclusive, sector after sector: Ethical choices in research as confronted to deafness and Deaf persons in Italy -- 12a Edgardo Carli, Deaf partisan. A conference of Anna's -- 12b Academic matters. The Deaf perspective: Difficulties and proposed solutions -- 13a Being a Deaf woman -- 13b Deaf women, deaf men, hearing women, hearing men -- Anna's acknowledgments -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index