Disability, Self, and Society / / Tanya Titchkosky.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Titchkosky, Tanya,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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