Performing Identities in Illness Narrative: Masculinity and Multiple Sclerosis  

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Riessman, Catherine Kohler

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Qualitative Research vol. 3 no. 1 (Apr. 2003), page 5-33.
Topik: illness narrative; masculinity; multiple sclerosis
Fulltext: 5QR3.1.pdf (127.42KB)

Isi artikel

Case studies have a valuable place in health research, including the increasingly popular illness narrative. In a thrice-told tale, I analyze and compare the performance of identities in two illness narratives, men with multiple sclerosis whom I interviewed in the 1980s. I include myself as a figure in the construction of the narratives, as audience for their performance, and I reinterpret them drawing on contemporary concepts of gender, disability, and performativity. Initially inspired theoretically by Goffman, the re-analysis locates the men in social structural contexts, drawing on Bourdieu's work on class and the body's relationship to social space.

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