{"product_id":"dissonant-disabilities-women-with-chronic-illnesses-explore-their-lives-paperback-softback-9780889614642","title":"Dissonant Disabilities; Women with Chronic Illnesses Explore Their Lives (Paperback \/ softback) 9780889614642","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDissonant Disabilities\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWomen with Chronic Illnesses Explore Their Lives\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDiane Driedger (Edited by), Michelle Owen (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780889614642\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 24 March 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e270 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.373 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction - Diane Driedger and Michelle Owen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart One: Clashing Expectations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWater Wearing on a Stone: The Role of Shame in the Social Construction of Chronic Illnesses - Charlotte Caron\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Complexities of Negotiating Power under Conditions of Chronic Illness - Mary Delaney and Sandra Bell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCrazy Talk: A Dialogue between Two Young Women about Depression - Mandy Fraser and Jennifer Matwee\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Social Construction of Doubt: Women's Accounts of Uncertainty and Chronic Illness - Sheilagh Grills and Scott Grills\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart Two: Unpredictable Bodies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Emergence of Body Image Dissatisfaction among Women in Singapore - Maho Isono\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat's Eating You? A Feminist's Chronic Struggle with Anorexic Identity - Morgan Gresham\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eListening to the Body: Women with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and Multiple Chemical Sensitivities Talk about Illness and the Body - Debra A. Swoboda\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis Is Not Going to Control My Life: Young and Living with Fibromyalgia - Amy Chow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart Three: Disturbing Work\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Personal is Pedagogical\/The Pedagogical is Personal - Ruth Roach Pierson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThere Always Seems to Be Excuses: A Grad Student's Narrative of Autoimmunity - Julie Devaney \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Delicate Balance: Chronic Conditions and Workspace - Nancy E. Hensen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart Four: Shifting Relationships\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChronic Non-malignant Pain: A Queer Woman's Journey through Relationships and Healing - Corinne Stevens\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorking Together: Women with Musculoskeletal Illnesses Interacting with Health Care Providers - S. Michelle Driedger, Carrie Sanders, Cindy Gallois, Maree Boyle, and Nancy Santesso\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCircle of Care: Transitioning through One Woman's Experience of Breast Cancer - Barbara A. Brown\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart Five: Traversing Dissonance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecovery and Power: Living with Bipolar Disorder - J. Karen Reynolds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiving Well (with Cancer): Lessons Learned from Dragon-Boat Racers - Terry L. Mitchell, Franci Finkelstein, Eleanor Nielsen, and Christina Yakiwchuk\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSignalling Invisibility, Risking Careers? Caucusing as an SOS - Katherine Teghtsoonian and Pamela Moss\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes from Bed: Learning from Chronic Illness - Susan Wendell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfterword\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSuggested Web Sites for Further Information\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBiographies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Women's Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52584770339096,"sku":"9780889614642","price":43.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/dissonant-disabilities-women-with-chronic-illnesses-explore-their-lives-paperback-softback-9780889614642","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}