Dissonant Disabilities
Women with Chronic Illnesses Explore Their Lives
Edited by Diane Driedger, Michelle Owen
March 2008
Print ISBN: 9780889614642
Overview
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.
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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
Reviews
"This is a strong and much-needed collection about issues that are significant in the lives of women living with chronic illnesses. I like the inclusion of physical, cognitive, visible, invisible, and contested illnesses."
Sharon Dale Stone, Department of Sociology, Lakehead University
"This collection addresses an under-researched and under-theorized academic topic, combining the perspectives of critical disability tudies 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
"This 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
