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

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This work explores concepts of body and space to understand the daily struggles of women with chronic illness. It shows how such women - coping with notions of illness, health and being female - restructure physical and social environments through strategies to accommodate disabling illnesses such as chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis or rheumatoid arthritis. Featuring original research and personal stories, it tells the tales of women forging networks of support, redefining themselves and challenging what it is to be ill.

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This is an exciting book that proposes a radical body politics. The authors combine a critical analysis of women's health with rich empirical material to rethink our embodiment. Written in an imaginative and accessible way, this book makes an important contribution to feminist theory. -- Gill Valentine, University of Sheffield
In that combination of scholarship and intimacy, this is a surprising book, a welcome and a needed book. * Metapsychology Online *
A unique and original book, Women, Body, Illness is the first attempt on this scale to synthesize women's health issues, feminist theory, spatial approaches, and work on the body. It is much needed and will fill a major gap in the literature on the geography of women's health. -- Wilbert M. Gesler, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Author Bio

Pamela Moss is a feminist geographer in the faculty of human and social development at the University of Victoria. Isabel Dyck is a social geographer in the School of Rehabilitation Sciences and a faculty associate in women's studies at the University of British Columbia.