Women, chronic illness, and rural Australia: Exploring the intersections between space, identity, and the body

Pini, B.; Soldatic, Karen

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Pini, B.

Soldatic, Karen

Date

2012

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Book Chapter

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Pini, B. and Soldatic, K. 2012. Women, chronic illness, and rural Australia: Exploring the intersections between space, identity, and the body, in Thurston, W.E. and Leach, B. and Leipert, B.D., Rural Women's Health, pp. 385-402. University of Toronto Press.

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Rural Women's Health

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http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt2tv021

ISBN

9781442662513

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Centre for Human Rights Education

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30559

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Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

This chapter brings a rural dimension to the literature on women and chronic illness by drawing on the story of an Australian rural woman who has chronic fatigue syndrome, or myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). Integral to this literature is Moss and Dyck’s (2002) book-length exploration of the lives of forty-nine women who had been diagnosed with either ME or rheumatoid arthritis (RA), along with their other writings on the topic (e.g., Dyck, 1995a, 1995b; Moss 1997; Moss & Dyck, 1996, 1999a, 1999b, 2001).