Disability, self, and society / Tanya Titchkosky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Titchkosky, Tanya, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology of disability.

Physical Description:

xiv, 283 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2003]

Summary:

This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council

University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial support for its publishing activities of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP)

Contents:

1. Disability: A Social Phenomenon 3

Disability and the Background of the Ordinary 8

Boundaries of Disability Experience 17

Between Blindness and Dyslexia 25

The Richness of Disability Experience 30

A Sense of a Problem? 37

Reading Disability Studies 42

2. Situating Disability: Mapping the Outer Limits 46

Mapping Disability: Opposition and Ambiguity 48

Mapping Sightedness 52

Life with Maps 58

The Map of Interactional Work 61

3. Mapping Normalcy: A Social Topography of Passing 64

Passing as a Map of Normalcy 66

Mapping Inequality 73

Beyond Passing: The Need for a Better Map 79

Mapping Sighted Spectacles 82

The Destiny of Cultural Maps 86

Passing as Blind 90

Mapping of Maps 94

4. The Expected and the Unexpected 96

Encountering Inaccessibility 97

Shocking Encounters 101

To Laugh or Not to Laugh 105

Unexpected Encounters 108

Disability as a Depiction of Environment 111

The Body as Text 114

Disability as a Challenge to Pragmatism 117

The Societal Production of Unintended Persons 119

Between People and the Environment 121

Discursive Power 125

5. Disability Studies: The Old and the New 129

The Problem of Disability 131

A Gap 133

Alternative Representations of the Problem of Disability 134

The Problem of Meaning 136

Conflicting Claims 139

Disability: Nothing's New 140

Disability Knowledge 144

Real Consequences for Real People 149

Disability: What's New? 153

Disability as Conversation 161

6. Revealing Culture's Eye 170

Seeing Blindness 171

The Question of Master Status 174

Representing Boundaries 178

Staring 183

Staring Back 188

No Problem at All 191

Beyond Minority Status: The Problem of Meaning 197

Subjectively Problematic 204

7. Betwixt and Between: Disability Is No-Thing 209

Disability as Contradiction? 210

Uncommon Experience 213

Marginality as Between-ness 217

The Seemingly Unsayable 220

Disability as Between-ness 228

Disability Studies as Quest and Promise 235.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0802035612

0802084370

OCLC:

50718210