Women's Bodies, Women's Lives

Professor Baukje Miedema is Research Director at the Dalhousie University Family Medicine Teaching Unit.Janet Stoppard is a Professor of Psychology at the University of New Brunswick where she teaches issues of women's mental health.The late Vivienne Anderson was an arts critic and prize-winning literary author.

Women's Bodies/Women's Lives will transform every woman and man who reads this unique and deeply moving collection of women's penetratingly honest, uncensored words. The contributors write about what it's like to eat and breathe and move in a woman's body; what it's like to be mocked, excluded and deprived of rights because of having an 'imperfect' body or refusing to move it or use it according to other people's rules."" - Paula J. Caplan, PhD, author of Don't Blame Mother: The Myth of Women's Masochism and They Say You're Crazy: How the World's Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who's Normal

• Introduction - Baukje Miedema, Janet M. Stoppard and Vivienne AndersonPart I: Altered BodiesChapter One: A Will of Its Own: Experiencing the Body in Severe Chronic Illnss - Vivienne AndersonChapter Two: Altered Bodies/Altered Selves: Exploring Women's Accounts of Illness Experiences - Roanne Thomas-MacLeanChapter Three: Breath and Body Wisdom: Experiencing the Personal Power of Self - Barbara Lynn Cull-WilbyChapter Four: Understanding Depression from the Standpoint of Women Who Have Been Depressed - Janet M. Stoppard, Yvette Scattolon and Deanna J. GammellChapter Five: Asylum or Cure? Women's Experiences of Psychiatric Hospitalization - Baukje Miedema and Janet M. StoppardChapter Six: ""Old Bags"" Under the Knife: Facial Cosmetic Surgery among Women - Diane Cepanec and Barbara PayneChapter Seven: Polluted Bodies: Inuit Identity and the Arctic Food Chain - Chris EganChapter Eight: Witness: Testament of a Journey - Addena Sumter-FreitagPart II: Objectified BodiesChapter Nine: Revisioning the Body/Mind from an Eastern Perspective: Comments on Experience, Embodiment and Pedagogy - Roxana NgChapter Ten: Shattering the Mirror: A Young Woman's Story of Weight Preoccupation - Kate RossiterChapter Eleven: One Mother and Daughter Approach to Resisting Wight Preoccupation - Gail MarchessaultChapter Twelve: Women, Weight and Appearance Satisfaction: An Ageless Pursuit of Thinness - Michelle N. Lafrance, Marilyn T. Zivian and Anita M. MeyersChapter Thirteen: Contours of Everyday Life: Women's Reflections on Embodiment and Health Over Time - Pamela WakewichChapter Fourteen: Negotiating Sexuality: Lesbians in the Canadian Military - Lynne GouliquerChapter Fifteen: From Airbrushing to Liposuction: The Technological Reconstruction of the Female Body - Fabienne Darling-WolfChapter Sixteen: From Razor Girls to Bionic Women: Extraordinary Cyborg Women in Popular Culture - Mia ConsalvoGlossaryContributors