Title: Women, body, illness : space and identity in the everyday lives of women with chronic illness /
Authors: Moss, Pamela, 1960-; Dyck, Isabel.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Feminism; Social Medicine; Spatial Behavior; Women psychology; Body Image; Chronic Disease psychology; Chronic diseases Psychological aspects; Chronic diseases Social aspects; Women Diseases Psychological aspects.; Women Diseases Social aspects.; Body image.; Spatial behavior.; Social medicine; Feminist theory.; Human geography.
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.