TY  - BOOK
AU  - Titchkosky,Tanya
TI  - Disability, self, and society
SN  - 0802035612
AV  - HV1568 T58 2003
U1  - 305.90816 21
PY  - 2003///]
CY  - Toronto, Buffalo
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Sociology of disability
KW  - People with disabilities
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-268) and index; 1; Disability: A Social Phenomenon --; 2; Situating Disability: Mapping the Outer Limits --; 3; Mapping Normalcy: A Social Topography of Passing --; 4; The Expected and the Unexpected --; 5; Disability Studies: The Old and the New --; 6; Revealing Culture's Eye --; 7; Betwixt and Between: Disability Is No-Thing
N2  - "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, hence, the vital necessity that disability stays with us."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -