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Women, Body, Illness
Space and Identity in the Everyday Lives of Women with Chronic Illness
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2003
Summary
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.
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Copyright year
2003
ISBN-Print
978-0-8476-9543-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-4732-4
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
225
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Prologue: Living with Chronic Illness No access Pages 1 - 8
1 Setting Out Some Issues No access Pages 9 - 18
2 Working through Theories of the Body No access Pages 19 - 34
3 Conceptualizing Chronic Illness with Space No access Pages 35 - 50
4 Making Sense of Chronic Illness No access Pages 51 - 68
5 Approaching Analysis and the "Interpretive Act" No access Pages 69 - 82
6 Destabilization of the Material Body: Onset, Diagnosis, Inscription No access Pages 83 - 104
7 Limits to the Body: Inscription, Income Issues, Borders No access Pages 105 - 124
8 Absence of Presence/Presence of Absence: Borders, Identity, Everyday Life No access Pages 125 - 144
9 Disciplining the Environment through Re-Iearning the Body: Everyday Life, Minutiae, Daily Living No access Pages 145 - 164
