Chronic Pain, BDSM and Crip Time

by Emma Sheppard

This book is a critical disability studies examination of the lived experience of chronic pain, engaging with and making a significant contribution to crip theory and the concept of ‘crip time’. Exploring experiences of pain and fatigue for people who live with chronic pain and based on narratives told through in-depth detailed interviews interwoven with theory at the cutting edge of critical disability studies, it demonstrates that our knowledge and understanding of chronic pain is incomplete without a critical disability studies approach. Through conceptualizing the concept of ‘crip time’ via participants’ narratives of living with chronic pain, chronic fatigue, and variable disabilities, this book demonstrates how thinking about chronic pain and fatigue with ‘crip time’ exposes normative, ableist, assumptions underlying both how pain and the ideas of cure and recovery are understood. It will be of interest to all academics and students working in the fields of disability studies, critical disability studies, crip theory, medical sociology, sexuality, and studies of embodiment, corporeality, and temporality more generally.

Genres: Disability Studies

118 pages, Hardcover

Published July 14, 2023

About the author

Emma Sheppard lives her with husband, two cats, and dog in a northern Canadian city where the long winters give her the perfect excuse to curl up with a blanket and good book. Writing fantasy romances (with a touch of suspense) merges her love of all types of fiction. A big fan of the genre ~ who doesn't love a good love story with heroic sword fighting? ~ Emma loves her heroines and heroes to be witty, courageous, and with their faults.

Emma is currently working on the second book in the Beast King Chronicles.