Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

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