Disability, Self, and Society / / Tanya Titchkosky.
Disability, Self, and Society speaks with authenticity about disability as a process of identity formation within a culture that has done a great deal to de-emphasize the complexity of disability experience. Unlike many who hold the conventional sociological view of disability as a 'lack'...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020] ©2003 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Disability: A Social Phenomenon -- 2. Situating Disability: Mapping the Outer Limits -- 3. Mapping Normalcy: A Social Topography of Passing -- 4. The Expected and the Unexpected -- 5. Disability Studies: The Old and the New -- 6. Revealing Culture's Eye -- 7. Betwixt and Between: Disability Is No-Thing -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX |
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Summary: | Disability, Self, and Society speaks with authenticity about disability as a process of identity formation within a culture that has done a great deal to de-emphasize the complexity of disability experience. Unlike many who hold the conventional sociological view of disability as a 'lack' or stigmatized identity, Tanya Titchkosky approaches disability as an agentive (not passive) embodiment of liminality and as a demonstration of socially valuable in-between-ness. She argues that disability can and should be a 'teacher' to, and about, non-disabled or 'temporarily abled' society.Titchkosky's poignant reflections on disability rely on the thought of Hannah Arendt as well as her personal experience as an individual with dyslexia living with a blind partner; she uniquely draws on her own and others' situations in order to demonstrate the sociopolitical character of disability. A thoughtful and cohesive integration of narrative and theory, Disability, Self, and Society presents a critical Canadian contribution to the growing subject of disability studies. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781442673939 9783110490954 |
DOI: | 10.3138/9781442673939 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Tanya Titchkosky. |