Reading and writing disability differently : the textured life of embodiment / Tanya Titchkosky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Titchkosky, Tanya, 1966-

Contributor:

University of Toronto.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities in mass media.

Sociology of disability.

Discrimination against people with disabilities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Other Title:

Reading & writing disability differently

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2007.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Mixing rigorous social theory with concrete analysis, Reading and Writing Disability Differently unpacks the marginality of disabled people by addressing how the meaning of our bodily existence is configured in everyday literate society.Tanya Titchkosky begins by illustrating how news media and policy texts reveal dominant Western ways of constituting the meaning of people, and the meaning of problems, as they relate to our understandings of the embodied self. Her goal is to configure disability as something more than a problem, and beyond simply a positive or a negative, and to treat texts on disability as potential sites to examine neo-liberal culture. Titchkosky holds that through an exploration of the potential behind limited representations of disability, we can relate to disability as a meaningful form of resistance to the restricted normative order of contemporary embodiment.Incorporating a textual analysis of ordinary depictions of disability, this innovative study promises to represent embodied differences in new ways and alter our imaginative relations to the politics of the body.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Text and the Life of Disability

2. Totally a Problem: Government Survey Texts

3. Metamorphosis: Making Disability a Medical Matter

4. Reading and Recognition: Un-doing Disability's Deadly Status

5. Governing Embodiment: Technologies of Constituting Citizens with Disabilities

6. Overcoming: Abled-Disabled and Other Acts of Normative Violence

Afterword

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-235) and index.

ISBN:

1-4426-9155-7

OCLC:

1163878763