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

by Moss, Pamela; Dyck, Isabel

• ISBN13: 9780847695430
• ISBN10: 0847695433
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-25
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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.

Author Biography

Pamela Moss is feminist geographer in the Faculty of Human and Social Development at the University of Victoria, Canada Isabel Dyck is a social geographer in the School of Rehabilitation Sciences and faculty associate, Women's Studies, the University of British Columbia, Canada

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Prologue: Living with Chronic Illness	1	(8)
Setting Out Some Issues	9	(10)
Working through Theries of the Body	19	(16)
Conceptualizing Chronic Illness with Space	35	(16)
Making Sense of Chronic Illness	51	(18)
Approaching Analysis and the ``Interpretive Act''	69	(14)
Destabilization of the Material Body: Onset, Diagnosis, Inscription	83	(22)
Limits to the Body: Inscription, Income Issues, Borders	105	(20)
Absence of Presence/Presence of Absence Borders, Identity, Everyday Life	125	(20)
Disciplining the Environment through Re-learning the Body: Everyday Life, Minutiae, Daily Living	145	(20)
Connections	165	(8)
Notes	173	(30)
Bibliography	203	(16)
Index	219	(6)
About the Authors	225