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| Title: | Dissonant Disabilities
: Women with Chronic Illness Theorize Their Lives |
| Author: | Diane Driedger & Michelle Owen (eds) |
| ISBN: | 0889614644 : 9780889614642 |
| Illustrations: | tables |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 258 |
| Weight: | .434 Kg. |
| Published: | Canadian Scholars' Press (Women's Press) - April 2008 |
| List Price: | 18.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Coping with illness: Womens studies |
This much-needed collection of original articles invites the reader to examine the key issues in the lives of women with chronic illnesses. The authors explore how society reacts to women with chronic illness and how women living with chronic illness cope with the uncertainty of their bodies in a society that desires certainty. Additionally, issues surrounding women with chronic illness in the workplace and the impact of chronic illness on women's relationships are sensitively considered.
Water Wearing on a Stone: The Role of Shame in the Social Construction of Chronic Illnesses; The Complexities of Negotiating Power under Conditions of Chronic Illness; Crazy Talk: Dialogue between Two Young Women about Depression; The Social Construction of Doubt: Women’s Accounts of Uncertainty and Chronic Illness; The Emergence of Body Image Dissatisfaction among Women in Singapore; What’s Eating You? A Feminist’s Chronic Struggle with Anorexic Identity; Listening to the Body: Women with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and Multiple Chemical Sensitivities Talk about Illness and the Body; This Is Not Going to Control My Life: Young and Living with Fibromyalgia; The Personal Is Pedagogical/The Pedagogical Is Personal; There Always Seems to Be Excuses: A Grad Student’s Narrative of Autoimmunity; A Delicate Balance: Chronic Conditions and Workspace; Chronic Non-Malignant Pain: A Queer Woman’s Journey through Relationships and Healing; Working Together: Women with Musculoskeletal Illnesses Interacting with Health Care Providers; Circle of Care: Transitioning through One Woman’s Experience of Breast Cancer; Recovery and Power: Living with Bipolar Disorder; Living Well (with Cancer): Lessons Learned from Dragon-Boat Racers; Signalling Invisibility, Risking Careers? Caucusing as an SOS; Notes from Bed: Learning from Chronic Illness; Index.
