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Women's Narratives of Health Disruption and Illness
Within and Across their Life Stories
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2019
Summary
Through vivid and engaging narrative accounts, written and collected by women, Women's Narratives of Health Disruption and Illness: Within and Across Their Life Stories explores how women experience the health disruptions and illnesses that span their lives. The collection examines how women’s broader and ongoing life stories impact and are impacted by health disruptions and illnesses. Organized into three parts, the chapters explore “Beginnings” in which health disruptions and illnesses impact early life, motherhood, and where early choices create the origins of health issues that impact later life; “Middles” which explores health experiences in and around middle age, or from the standpoint in middle-age looking back and forth; and “Endings” which explores narratives of ageing and end of life communication. Personal, revealing, and often beautiful, the women’s narratives featured in this book will invite the reader into the stories and lives of others, and toward the reflection, learning, and personal transformation that comes from truly connecting with the experiences of others. This book will be helpful for scholars of communication, health, women’s studies, family studies, and sociology.
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Copyright year
2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-9263-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-9264-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
227
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
1 This Wasn’t How the Story Was Supposed to Go No access
2 Giving Birth in a Distant Land No access
3 A Decade Navigating Food Allergies No access
4 Growing Up with a Chronic Illness No access
5 Smoking No access
6 Through the Glass Darkly No access
7 Living with Interstitial Cystitis No access
8 Narrating Menopause with English as a Second Language No access
9 “I like to Read, Play Cribbage, Oh, and I have Alzheimer’s” No access
10 Sylvia’s Story/The Story of Sylvia No access
11 Linked Lives No access
12 A Narrative Account ofFather-Daughter ConversationsNear the End of His Life No access
13 A Narrative Legacy of Family Caregiving No access
