TY - BOOK AU - Titchkosky,Tanya TI - Disability, self, and society SN - 0802035612 (bound) AV - HV1568 .T58 2003 U1 - 305.908 21 PY - 2003/// CY - Toronto, Buffalo PB - University of Toronto Press KW - Sociology of disability KW - People with disabilities KW - Handicap KW - Aspect sociologique N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-268) and index 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. The author approaches disability as an agentive (not passive) embodiment of liminality.She argues that disability can and should be a 'teacher' to, and about, non-disabled or 'temporarily abled' society ER -