Reifying Women's Experiences with Invisible Illness (eBook, ePUB)

Illusions, Delusions, Reality
Redaktion: Williams, Kesha Morant; Morant, Frances Selena

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Reifying Women's Experiences with Invisible Illness: Illusions, Delusions, Reality provides a platform that recognizes that the experience of invisible illness is greatly influenced by context and personal circumstance. The contributors to this book include women who exude diversity as it relates to race and ethnicity, career, religious experience, education, social support, and interpersonal relationships. From recent college graduates to senior level professionals, these women share stories that create a space to advocate on behalf of the individual who is chronically ill rather than focusing on the often privileged perspective of medical professionals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498551014
• Artikelnr.: 50101852

Autorenporträt

Edited by Kesha Morant Williams and Frances Selena Morant - Contributions by Nicole Defenbaugh; Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas; Laura Ellingson; Eletra Gilchrist-Petty; Cerise L. Glenn; Annette D. Madlock; Emily Pfender; Launick Saint-Fort; Wei Sun and Hann

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Foreword: Communicating from/as/with the Body Laura Ellingson
Introduction: Not an Illusion Kesha Morant Williams Chapter 1: My Sister's
Keeper: Sibling Social Support and Chronic Illness Kesha Morant Williams
Chapter 2: Temporal Reflections of UC Remission: An Autoethnography of Body
Image & Acceptance Nicole Defenbaugh Chapter 3: A Semblance of Normalcy:
Social Isolation and the Burden of Looking Well Hannah Thyberg Chapter 4:
Transparency and Disclosure: Tools for Building Trust and Confidence Emily
Pfender Chapter 5: An Unexpected Road to Discovery: Finding One's Self in
the Midst of Uncertainty Launick Saint-Fort Chapter 6: When Lifestage
Matters: A Narrative Account of a Pregnancy-Related Invisible Illness
Eletra Gilchrist Petty Chapter 7: Reframing Personal and Professional
Identity in Connection to "Ability" Cerise L. Glenn Chapter 8: Duty, Honor,
Country...sickness: Finding Strength in my Personal Battle with Gulf War
Illness Elizabeth Desnoyer-Colas Chapter 9: Complicit in Concealing
Illness: Black Women, Beauty, Identity, and Breast Cancer Annette Matlock
Gatison Chapter 10: The Enemy at the Door: My Friend's Silent Battle to
Breast Cancer Wei Sun About the Contributors