Dissonant Disabilities

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Edited by Diane Driedger and Michelle Owen

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Women’s Press

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.

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"This is a strong and much-needed collection about issues that are significant in the lives of women living with chronic illnesses. I like the inclusion of physical, cognitive, visible, invisible, and contested illnesses."
- Sharon Dale Stone, Department of Sociology, Lakehead University

"This collection addresses an under-researched and under-theorized academic topic, combining the perspectives of critical disability tudies and feminist studies. Most importantly, it does so from the perspective of women who themselves live with chronic illness. The scholarship is sound and well-researched, but also adds an important dimension of personal experience that underlines the value of critical identity politics."
- Pauline Greenhill, Women's and Gender Studies, University of Winnipeg

Diane Driedger

Diane Driedger

Diane 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.

Michelle Owen

Michelle Owen

Michelle Owen is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Winnipeg. Her primary teaching, research interests and publications are focused ongender, sexuality, family and disability. Most recently, Michelle worked on two projects involving women with disabilities: a longitudinal study of intimate partner violence, and a participatory action research initiative investigating intersecting sites of violence in the lives of girls and young women.

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