Lecture: "Our Bodies in Social Space: Developing the Conversation between Disability Studies and Feminism"

(Disability Studies in Toronto)

Lecture by Tanya Titchkosky

February 5, 2009
7:30 p.m.
Room 12-199, placeOISE

Doing Disability Studies research and teaching in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, Tanya works from her perspective as dyslexic and with an interpretive sociological approach.

She takes interest in examining how feminist, queer and other critical theory exclude and include disability within their studies of politically charged contexts of daily life and desires.

Tanya is also author of Reading and Writing Disability Differently: The Textured Life of Embodiment (2007) and Disability, Self and Society (2003).

Her talk will draw on feminist and queer theory as they address bodies situated in classrooms and other ordinary spaces of university life.

She will raise questions about how disability and disability studies are finding a place at the table of feminist inquiry and how this brings people closer to imagining new conversations of bodies in social space.