Dissonant Disabilities: Women With Chronic Illness Explore Their Lives

by Michelle Owen, Diane Driedger (Editor)

Examines the key issues in the lives of women with chronic illnesses. This collection explores 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. It also considers issues surrounding women with chronic illness in the workplace.

Genres: Disability, Nonfiction, Anthologies, Disability Studies

258 pages, Hardcover

First published May 30, 2008