Women, Body, Illness
Space and Identity in the Everyday Lives of Women with Chronic Illness
Women, Body, Illness
Space and Identity in the Everyday Lives of Women with Chronic Illness
Description
This provocative and moving work explores concepts of body and space to better understand the daily lives and struggles of women with chronic illness. Moss and Dyck show how such women-coping with associated notions of illness, health, and being female-restructure their physical and social environments through the strategies they choose to accommodate disabling illnesses such as chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis, or rheumatoid arthritis. Strategies might include disclosing or concealing illness from employers and friends; seeking or rejecting emotional support through old friends and new contacts; and pursuing or resisting specific diagnoses from the biomedical community. Featuring a wealth of original research and personal stories, Women, Body, Illness tells the tales of chronically ill women forging networks of support, redefining themselves, and challenging what it is to be ill.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Setting Out Some Issues
Chapter 3 Working through Theories of the Body
Chapter 4 Conceptualizing Chronic Illness with Space
Chapter 5 Making Sense of Chronic Illness
Chapter 6 Approaching Analysis and the "Interpretive Act"
Chapter 7 Destabilization of the Material Body: Onset, Diagnosis, Inscription
Chapter 8 Limits to the Body: Inscription, Income Issues, Borders
Chapter 9 Absence of Presence/ Presence of Absence: Borders, Identity, Everyday Life
Chapter 10 Disciplining the Environment through Re-learning the Body: Everyday Life, Minutiae, Daily Living
Chapter 11 Connections
Product details
| Published | Apr 14 2003 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 236 |
| ISBN | 9781461647324 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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