The authors address: female dynamics within deaf schools: Helen Keller’s identity as a deaf woman: deaf women’s role in deaf organizations: whether or not the inequity in education and employment opportunities for deaf women is bias against gender or disability: the life of 19th-century teacher Marcelina Ruis Y Fernandez: the influence of single, hearing female instructors in deaf education: the extent of women’s authority over oralist educational dictates during the 1900s: a deaf daughter’s relationship with her hearing mother in the late 20th century: two deaf sisters' creative freedom from 1885 to 1920: the depictions of deaf or mute women in two films: a deaf woman’s account of blending the public-private, deaf-hearing, and religious-secular worlds: how five deaf female American Sign Language (ASL) teachers define 'gender', 'feminism', 'sex' and 'patriarchy' in ASL and English: 20th-century American deaf beauty pageants.