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This work 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 conventional sociological views 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. Titchkosky's poignant reflections on disability rely on the thought of Hannah Arendt as well as her personal experience as an individual with dyslexia living with a blind partner; she draws on her own and others' situations in order to demonstrate the socio-political character of disability. An integration of narrative and theory, ""Disability, Self and Society"" presents a critical Canadian contribution to the growing subject of disability studies.

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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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