Reading and Writing Disability Differently: The Textured Life of Embodiment

Tanya Titchkosky

Published by University of Toronto Press 2007

Reading and Writing Disability Differently

The Textured Life of Embodiment

Tanya Titchkosky

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442683839

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About this book

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.

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Titchkosky Tanya :

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

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"Titchkosky has written an important book that examines and showcases 'disability meaning making.' Her book has made a significant contribution to the literature not only on disability, but on the broader discourse of diversity, difference and change."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Text and the Life of Disability Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
PART ONE. Problems
2. Totally a Problem: Government Survey Texts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
3. Metamorphosis: Making Disability a Medical Matter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
4. Reading and Recognition: Un-doing Disability's Deadly Status Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
PART TWO. Dis-solutions
5. Governing Embodiment: Technologies of Constituting Citizens with Disabilities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
6. Overcoming: Abled-Disabled and Other Acts of Normative Violence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Afterword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 192

eBook

Published: May 5, 2007
ISBN: 9781442683839