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Social Science People With Disabilities

Disability, Self, and Society

by (author) Tanya Titchkosky

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2003
Category
People with Disabilities, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802084378
    Publish Date
    Feb 2003
    List Price
    $53.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802035615
    Publish Date
    Feb 2003
    List Price
    $75.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442673939
    Publish Date
    Feb 2006
    List Price
    $91.00

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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.

About the author

Tanya Titchkosky teaches Disability Studies in the Department of Humanities, Social Science and Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, as well as in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. She is a member of the Women and Gender Studies Institute of U of T, and of the Honorary Research Association of the University of New Brunswick.

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