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What is the meaning of disability, and how are our conceptions of disability formed in contemporary society? In this book, Tanya Titchkosky challenges us to read and write disability differently than we ordinarily do in daily life. Through the examination of everyday texts about disability, this unique and detailed study explores how disability is put into text, narrated, and made present in readers' lives. Using interpretive social theory, Reading and Writing Disability Differently engages news media and policy texts that depict disability as a clear-cut problem in need of clear-cut solutions. These texts become opportunities to reveal dominant Western ways of constituting the meaning of people, and the meaning of problems, as they relate to contemporary understandings of our embodied selves. Releasing disability's power as something more than a problem, and other than positive or negative, this study demonstrates the imaginative potential of regarding texts on disability as sites to examine neoliberal culture. Given that media and policy texts on disability are informed by tacit cultural assumptions, these texts serve as a social scene worthy of critical inquiry. We are shown how we can pursue a self-reflexive analysis of ordinary ways or reading and writing as they constitute embodiment as a problem, and how we might escape the confines of a collective imagination dedicated only to solving troubles. The rigorous mixing of social theory and concrete analysis allows for the possibility of a radical new approach to disability. Titchkosky holds that through an exploration of the potential that lies behind limited representations of disability, we can relate to disability as a meaningful form of resistan o the restricted normative order of contemporary embodiment.