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Women, body, illness : space and identity in the everyday lives of women with chronic illness
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- Creator
- Pamela Moss and Isabel Dyck
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, 2002
- Physical Details
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- x, 225 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780847695430, 0847695433, 9780847695447, 0847695441
- OCLC
- ocm50291003
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
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.
- Body Image.
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- Chronic Disease -- psychology.
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- Feminism.
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- Social Medicine.
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- Spatial Behavior.
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- Women -- psychology.
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