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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Titchkosky, Tanya, 1966-
Imprint:	Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2007.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 250 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	People with disabilities in mass media. Sociology of disability. Discrimination against people with disabilities. Discrimination against people with disabilities. People with disabilities in mass media. Sociology of disability. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11159975

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Varying Form of Title:	Reading & writing disability differently
ISBN:	9781442683839 144268383X 9780802092366 0802092365 9780802095060 0802095062
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-235) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"In this book, Tanya Titchkosky challenges us to read and write disability differently than we ordinarily do in daily life. Through the examination of everyday texts about disability, this study explores how disability is put into text, narrated, and made present in readers' lives. Using interpretive social theory, Reading and Writing Disability Differently engages news media and policy texts that depict disability as a clear-cut problem in need of clear-cut solutions. These texts become opportunities to reveal dominant Western ways of constituting the meaning of people, and the meaning of problems, as they relate to contemporary understandings of our embodied selves."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Titchkosky, Tanya, 1966- Reading and writing disability differently. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2007 9780802092366

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Text and the life of disability
Part One: Problems
Totally a problem: government survey texts
Metamorphosis: making disability a medical matter
Reading and recognition: un-doing disability's deadly status
Part Two: Dis-solutions
Governing embodiment: technologies of constituting citizens with disabilities
Overcoming: abled-disabled and other acts of normative violence.