Women, body, illness
Subtitle: space and identity in the everyday lives of women with chronic illness
By: Pamela Moss and Isabel Dyck.
Contributors: Dyck, Isabel.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting out some issues; title: Working through theories of the body; title: Conceptualizing chronic illness with space; title: Making sense of chronic illness; title: Approaching analysis and the "interpretive act"; title: Destabilization of the material body: onset, diagnosis, inscription; title: Limits to the body: income issues, borders; title: Absence of presence / presence of absence: borders, identity, everyday life; title: Disciplining the environment through re-learning the body: everyday life, minutiae, daily living; title: Connections.