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

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 disabli...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moss, Pamela
Otros Autores: Dyck, Isabel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003.
Temas:
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.
Feminism.
Body Image
Chronic Disease > psychology
Feminism
Social Medicine
Spatial Behavior
Women > psychology
Maladies chroniques > Aspect psychologique.
Maladies chroniques > Aspect social.
Femmes > Maladies > Aspect psychologique.
Femmes > Maladies > Aspect social.
Image du corps.
Théorie féministe.
Féminisme.
Médecine sociale.
feminism.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Body image
Chronic diseases > Psychological aspects
Chronic diseases > Social aspects
Feminist theory
Human geography
Social medicine
Spatial behavior
Women > Diseases > Psychological aspects
Women > Diseases > Social aspects
Vrouwen.
Chronisch zieken.
Dagelijks leven.
Coping.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue
  • Living with Chronic Illness; 1
  • Setting Out Some Issues; FEMINISM, POWER, BODY; THINKING THROUGH THE BODY; CHRONIC ILLNESS, BODY, SPACE; WHAT IS CHRONIC ILLNESS?; WHAT IS TO COME; 2
  • Working through Theories of the Body; CATEGORIZING THEORIES OF THE BODY; WHAT TO KEEP AND WHAT TO THROW AWAY; RESITUATING OUR FOCUS; 3
  • Conceptualizing Chronic Illness with Space; ILL BODIES AS BOTH DISCURSIVE AND MATERIAL; CONCEPTUALIZING SPACES; MOVING TOWARD EMBODIED SPACES; 4
  • Making Sense of Chronic Illness.
  • A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKUSING THE FRAMEWORK; 5
  • Approaching Analysis and the "Interpretive Act"; CONSIDERING SOME METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES; WORKING WITH THEORY AND DATA; OURSELVES AND INTERPRETATION; THE STUDY-METHODS AND PROCESS; THE WOMEN; 6
  • Destabilization of the Material Body: Onset, Diagnosis, Inscription; ONSET; DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSIS AS INSCRIPTION; DISCOURSE AND THE MATERIAL BODY; 7
  • Limits to the Body: Inscription, Income Issues, Borders; INSCRIPTION; ILLNESS AND ENVIRONMENT; ADJUSTMENT TO DAILY ROUTINES; SECURING INCOME; FLUID, PERMEABLE LIMITS.
  • 8
  • Absence of Presence / Presence of Absence: Borders, Identity, Everyday LifeABSENCE AND PRESENCE; BORDERS; IDENTIFYING AND GRIEVING LOSS; NEGOTIATING IDENTITY; DISCLOSURE; MOVING TOWARD EVERYDAY LIFE; 9
  • Disciplining the Environment through Re-learning the Body: Everyday Life, Minutiae, Daily Living; DEPARTURE POINTS AND BELONGINGS; DISCIPLINING THE ENVIRONMENT IN LIEU OF BODILY CONTROL; A TYPICAL DAY?; RESTRUCTURING, RE-COGNITION, RE-LEARNING, RE- ; SPATIALITY AS DISCIPLINING THE ENVIRONMENT; 10
  • Connections; TOWARD A RADICAL BODY POLITICS; DEMONSTRATING THEORY; THREE MORE TENSIONS.
  • PATIENCE AND WOMEN LIKE HERNotes; Bibliography; Index; About the Authors.

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