Women, Body, Illness

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.

• Chapter 1 Prologue: Living with Chronic IllnessChapter 2 Setting Out Some IssuesChapter 3 Working through Theories of the BodyChapter 4 Conceptualizing Chronic Illness with SpaceChapter 5 Making Sense of Chronic IllnessChapter 6 Approaching Analysis and the "Interpretive Act"Chapter 7 Destabilization of the Material Body: Onset, Diagnosis, InscriptionChapter 8 Limits to the Body: Inscription, Income Issues, BordersChapter 9 Absence of Presence/ Presence of Absence: Borders, Identity, Everyday LifeChapter 10 Disciplining the Environment through Re-learning the Body: Everyday Life, Minutiae, Daily LivingChapter 11 Connections

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.