This provocative work explores concepts of body and space to understand the daily struggles of women with chronic illness. Moss and Dyck show how such women-coping with notions of illness, health, and being female-restructure physical and social environments through strategies to accommodate disabling illnesses such as chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis, or rheumatoid arthritis. Featuring original research and personal stories, Women, Body, Illness tells the tales of women forging networks of support, redefining themselves, and challenging what it is to be ill.

Pamela Moss is a feminist geographer in the faculty of human and social development at the University of Victoria. Isabel Dyck is a social geographer in the School of Rehabilitation Sciences and a faculty associate in women's studies at the University of British Columbia.

Chapter 1 Prologue: Living with Chronic Illness Chapter 2 Setting Out Some Issues Chapter 3 Working through Theories of the Body Chapter 4 Conceptualizing Chronic Illness with Space Chapter 5 Making Sense of Chronic Illness Chapter 6 Approaching Analysis and the "Interpretive Act" Chapter 7 Destabilization of the Material Body: Onset, Diagnosis, Inscription Chapter 8 Limits to the Body: Inscription, Income Issues, Borders Chapter 9 Absence of Presence/ Presence of Absence: Borders, Identity, Everyday Life Chapter 10 Disciplining the Environment through Re-learning the Body: Everyday Life, Minutiae, Daily Living Chapter 11 Connections