Women (re)writing illness as their own /
An exploration of the ways in which writing processes and products enable women to create spaces of their own to challenge and interrogate illness.
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2026.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Rachel N. Spear
- Writing in the background: storying professional and bodily liminality / Elise Dixon and Rachel Robinson-Zetzer
- Mothering in-between: mothers creating narratives of breast cancer / Justine Dymond
- "Envy" in others: responding to (literary) cancer treatments / Jocelyn Williams
- Chronic poetics and the poetry of chronic illness (in a global pandemic) / Emilia Nielsen
- Tightened in a difficult union: recounting illness in Amelia Rosselli's War variations / Federica Santini
- The reader in the labyrinth of Susan E. King's Treading the maze / Cynthia Northcutt Malone
- "You learn from the part of the story you focus on": narrating queer trauma in Hannah Gadsby's Nanette / Sarah Smith and Christopher Bennett
- Beyond Gubar's debulked self: re-reading, re-writing, and re-presenting cancer / Rachel N. Spear.