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Disability, Self, and Society

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ISBN-10: 0802084370

ISBN-13: 9780802084378

Edition: 2003

Authors: Tanya Titchkosky

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List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Publication date: 2/22/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.03" wide x 9.00" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 0.990

Tanya Titchkosky is an associate professor and an associate department chair at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

Acknowledgments
Disability: A Social Phenomenon
Disability and the Background of the Ordinary
Boundaries of Disability Experience
Between Blindness and Dyslexia
The Richness of Disability Experience
A Sense of a Problem?
Reading Disability Studies
Situating Disability: Mapping the Outer Limits
Mapping Disability: Opposition and Ambiguity
Mapping Sightedness
Life with Maps
The Map of Interactional Work
Mapping Normalcy: A Social Topography of Passing
Passing as a Map of Normalcy
Something More
Mapping Inequality
Beyond Passing: The Need for a Better Map
Mapping Sighted Spectacles
The Destiny of Cultural Maps
Passing as Blind
Mapping of Maps
The Expected and the Unexpected
Encountering Inaccessibility
Shocking Encounters
To Laugh or Not to Laugh
Unexpected Encounters
Disability as a Depiction of Environment
The Body as Text
Disability as a Challenge to Pragmatism
The Societal Production of Unintended Persons
Between People and the Environment
Discursive Power
Disability Studies: The Old and the New
The Problem of Disability
A Gap
Alternative Representations of the Problem of Disability
The Problem of Meaning
Conflicting Claims
Disability: Nothing's New
Disability Knowledge
Real Consequences for Real People
Disability: What's New?
Disability as Conversation
Revealing Culture's Eye
Seeing Blindness
The Question of Master Status
Representing Boundaries
Staring
Staring Back
No Problem at All
Beyond Minority Status: The Problem of Meaning
Subjectively Problematic
Betwixt and Between: Disability Is No-Thing
Disability as Contradiction?
Uncommon Experience
Marginality as Between-ness
The Seemingly Unsayable
Disability as Between-ness
Disability Studies as Quest and Promise
Notes
References
Index