This text explores the boundaries between bodies and society with special reference to uncovering the cultural components of health and the ways in which bodies are categorized according to a form of culturally embedded 'health orthodoxy'.
This text explores the boundaries between bodies and society with special reference to uncovering the cultural components of health and the ways in which bodies are categorized according to a form of culturally embedded 'health orthodoxy'.
This text explores the boundaries between bodies and society with special reference to uncovering the cultural components of health and the ways in which bodies are categorized according to a form of culturally embedded 'health orthodoxy'.
1. Being a 'sexual pervert' in academia -- 2. Finding my feminist voice through an illness story : 'an old female body confronts a thyroid problem' -- 3. Doing feminist autoethnography with drug-using women -- 4. 'She wrote it but look what she wrote' -- 5. Sensitizing the femin…
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- About the author -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: autoethnography as feminist method -- 1 Being a 'sexual pervert' in academia -- 2 Finding my feminist voice through an illness story: 'An old female body con…