Women, Body, Illness - Space and Identity in the Everyday Lives of Women With Chronic Illness

Informationen zum Autor By Pamela Moss and Isabel Dyck Klappentext This provocative work explores concepts of body and space to understand the daily struggles of women with chronic illness. Moss and Dyck show how such women-coping with notions of illness, health, and being female-restructure physical and social environments through strategies to accommodate disabling illnesses such as chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis, or rheumatoid arthritis. Featuring original research and personal stories, Women, Body, Illness tells the tales of women forging networks of support, redefining themselves, and challenging what it is to be ill. Zusammenfassung Explores concepts of body and space to better understand the daily lives and struggles of women with chronic illness. The authors show how such women restructure their physical and social environments through the strategies they choose to accommodate disabling illnesses. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Prologue: Living with Chronic Illness 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

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• Authors: Isabel Dyck, Dyck Isabel, Pamela Moss, Pamela Dyck Moss, Moss Pamela, MOSS PAMELA DYCK ISABEL
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.06.2002
• EAN: 9780847695430
• ISBN: 978-0-8476-9543-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects