Disability, Self, and Society

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Summary: Understanding Disability
Review: Titchkosky gives readers an insider's perspective on living with disability. Disability, Self, and Society is filled with engaging(and even amusing) anecdotes about herself (a dislexic professor)and her partner (a blind professor)living in a small university town. By way of these stories Titchkosky shows how the social ordering of everyday life - from our expections about what is "normal" to the physical design of streets and buildings - shapes the experience and meaning of disability. This book is a "must read" for all academics concerned with social equality as well as for all of us who are, or will be, touched by disability (if only in old age).