Description
Book SynopsisExamines 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. Issues surrounding women with chronic illness in the workplace and the impact of chronic illness on women's relationships are also covered.
Trade ReviewThis collection addresses an under-researched and under-theorized academic topic, combining the perspectives of critical disability studies and feminist studies. Most importantly, it does so from the perspective of women who themselves live with chronic illness. The scholarship is sound and well-researched, but also adds an important dimension of personal experience that underlines the value of critical identity politics."" - Pauline Greenhill, Women's and Gender Studies, University of Winnipeg
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction - Diane Driedger and Michelle Owen
- Part One: Clashing Expectations
- Water Wearing on a Stone: The Role of Shame in the Social Construction of Chronic Illnesses - Charlotte Caron
- The Complexities of Negotiating Power under Conditions of Chronic Illness - Mary Delaney and Sandra Bell
- Crazy Talk: A Dialogue between Two Young Women about Depression - Mandy Fraser and Jennifer Matwee
- The Social Construction of Doubt: Women's Accounts of Uncertainty and Chronic Illness - Sheilagh Grills and Scott Grills
- Part Two: Unpredictable Bodies
- The Emergence of Body Image Dissatisfaction among Women in Singapore - Maho Isono
- What's Eating You? A Feminist's Chronic Struggle with Anorexic Identity - Morgan Gresham
- Listening to the Body: Women with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and Multiple Chemical Sensitivities Talk about Illness and the Body - Debra A. Swoboda
- This Is Not Going to Control My Life: Young and Living with Fibromyalgia - Amy Chow
- Part Three: Disturbing Work
- The Personal is Pedagogical/The Pedagogical is Personal - Ruth Roach Pierson
- There Always Seems to Be Excuses: A Grad Student's Narrative of Autoimmunity - Julie Devaney
- A Delicate Balance: Chronic Conditions and Workspace - Nancy E. Hensen
- Part Four: Shifting Relationships
- Chronic Non-malignant Pain: A Queer Woman's Journey through Relationships and Healing - Corinne Stevens
- Working Together: Women with Musculoskeletal Illnesses Interacting with Health Care Providers - S. Michelle Driedger, Carrie Sanders, Cindy Gallois, Maree Boyle, and Nancy Santesso
- Circle of Care: Transitioning through One Woman's Experience of Breast Cancer - Barbara A. Brown
- Part Five: Traversing Dissonance
- Recovery and Power: Living with Bipolar Disorder - J. Karen Reynolds
- Living Well (with Cancer): Lessons Learned from Dragon-Boat Racers - Terry L. Mitchell, Franci Finkelstein, Eleanor Nielsen, and Christina Yakiwchuk
- Signalling Invisibility, Risking Careers? Caucusing as an SOS - Katherine Teghtsoonian and Pamela Moss
- Notes from Bed: Learning from Chronic Illness - Susan Wendell
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Suggested Web Sites for Further Information
- Biographies
- Index
