Managing A Disrupted Lifecourse: Issues Of Identity And Emotion Work  

Oleh:

Exley, Catherine ; Letherby, Gayle

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine vol. 5 no. 1 (Jan. 2001), page 112-132.
Topik: disruption; emotion work; lifecourse
Fulltext: 112H51.pdf (83.16KB)

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This article draws on the experiences of two groups of people: namely a group of people who have defined, or still define themselves as ‘infertile’ and/or ‘involuntarily childless’, and second, a group of people with cancer who have a terminal prognosis, who may be perceived as dying ‘prematurely’. We start by arguing that ‘infertility’ and/or ‘involuntary childlessness’ and terminal illness have a disruptive effect on daily lives and future expectations, and we are concerned throughout with how this disruption is managed. In particular, we explore how individuals who have experienced such a disruption to their lives manage both their sense of self and the self in relation to others. Within this we are concerned specifically with the emotion work which individuals engage in, and we explore the link between emotion work and lifecourse disruption.

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