Reifying women's experiences with invisible illness : illusions, delusions, reality /: illusions, delusions, reality. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Kesha Morant Williams, Frances Selena Morant.
• Editors: Williams, Kesha Morant; Morant, Frances Selena
• Contents: Contents ; ; Foreword: Communicating from/as/with the Body ; Laura Ellingson ; Introduction: Not an Illusion ; Kesha Morant Williams ; Chapter 1: My Sister’s Keeper: Sibling Social Support and Chronic Illness ; Kesha Morant Williams ; Chapter 2: Temporal Reflections of UC Remission: An Autoethnography of Body Image & Acceptance ; Nicole Defenbaugh ; Chapter 3: A Semblance of Normalcy: Social Isolation and the Burden of Looking Well ; Hannah Thyberg ; Chapter 4: Transparency and Disclosure: Tools for Building Trust and Confidence ; Emily Pfender ; Chapter 5: An Unexpected Road to Discovery: Finding One’s Self in the Midst of Uncertainty ; Launick Saint-Fort ; Chapter 6: When Lifestage Matters: A Narrative Account of a Pregnancy-Related Invisible Illness ; Eletra Gilchrist Petty ; Chapter 7: Reframing Personal and Professional Identity in Connection to “Ability” ; Cerise L. Glenn ; Chapter 8: Duty, Honor, Country…sickness: Finding Strength in my Personal Battle with Gulf War Illness ; Elizabeth Desnoyer-Colas ; Chapter 9: Complicit in Concealing Illness: Black Women, Beauty, Identity, and Breast Cancer ; Annette Matlock Gatison ; Chapter 10: The Enemy at the Door: My Friend’s Silent Battle to Breast Cancer ; Wei Sun ; About the Contributors
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 616.0019; Chronic diseases -- Psychological aspects; Women -- Health and hygiene; Women -- Diseases -- Social aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498551014
• Related ISBNs: 9781498551007
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