Rethinking Normalcy - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551303639 ISBN 13: 9781551303635

Publisher: Canadian Scholars' Press Inc., 2009

Synopsis

Rethinking Normalcy introduces the growing field of disability studies to an undergraduate audience in a variety of disciplines and programs based in the social sciences, humanities, and health sciences. The authors articulate the depth and breadth of this newly emerging field of study and provide a vibrant foretaste of the kind of work disability studies scholars and activists do to provocatively question the power of normalcy.

Strongly interdisciplinary, this volume draws upon many different social and cultural approaches to the study of disability, and essentially addresses disability as a social and political issue.

The chapters in this book exemplify ways of questioning our collective relations to normalcy, as such relations affect the lives of both disabled and currently non-disabled people.

Over sixty per cent of this book features the work of disability studies scholars located in Canada.

About this title

About the Author:

Tanya Titchkosky teaches Disability Studies in the Department of Humanities, Social Science and Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, as well as in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. She is a member of the Women and Gender Studies Institute of U of T, and of the Honorary Research Association of the University of New Brunswick. Rod Michalko is teaching Disability Studies in the Equity Studies Program of New College, U of T. He is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies, OISE, and also participates in the Critical Disability Studies Program at York University. Titchkosky and Michalko have jointly authored five books and numerous articles in disability studies.

Review:

"In Rethinking Normalcy the editors provide an exciting and comprehensive collection of works that foreground the study of disability in Canada." - Jacqueline Low, Department of Sociology, University of New Brunswick

About this edition

• Publisher: Canadian Scholars' Press Inc.
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1551303639
• ISBN 13: 9781551303635
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 354
• Editor: Titchkosky Tanya, Michalko Rod