Reading and writing disability differently : the textured life of embodiment
"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
xiv, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780802092366, 9780802095060, 0802092365, 0802095062
77378722
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