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Women, body, illness : space and identity in the everyday lives of women with chronic illness / Pamela Moss and Isabel Dyck.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moss, Pamela, 1960-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chronic diseases--Psychological aspects.
- Chronic diseases.
- Chronic diseases--Social aspects.
- Women--Diseases--Psychological aspects.
- Women.
- Women--Diseases--Social aspects.
- Body image.
- Spatial behavior.
- Social medicine.
- Feminist theory.
- Human geography.
- Body Image.
- Chronic Disease--psychology.
- Feminism.
- Social Medicine.
- Spatial Behavior.
- Women--psychology.
- Women--Diseases.
- Medical Subjects:
- Body Image.
- Chronic Disease--psychology.
- Feminism.
- Social Medicine.
- Spatial Behavior.
- Women--psychology.
- Physical Description:
- x, 225 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Setting out some issues
- Working through theories of the body
- Conceptualizing chronic illness with space
- Making sense of chronic illness
- Approaching analysis and the "interpretive act"
- Destabilization of the material body: onset, diagnosis, inscription
- Limits to the body: income issues, borders
- Absence of presence / presence of absence: borders, identity, everyday life
- Disciplining the environment through re-learning the body: everyday life, minutiae, daily living
- Connections.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0847695433
- 9780847695430
- 0847695441
- 9780847695447
- OCLC:
- 50291003
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