Dissonant Disabilities
Women with Chronic Illnesses Explore Their Lives
edited by Diane Driedger & Michelle Owen
This 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.
close this panelDiane Driedger is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba. She is author of The Last Civil Rights Movement: Disabled Peoples' International and co-editor of two anthologies by women with disabilities; she is also a published poet. Since 1980, Diane has been an activist, researcher, administrator and author on the topic of people with disabilities with a specific interest in the empowerment of disabled women.
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