{"product_id":"writing-contested-illness-chloe-r-green-9781399534406","title":"Writing Contested Illness: Experimentation in Contemporary Women's Life Writing","description":"Intervening in the gnarled lineage of gender, genre and medicine, \u003ci\u003eWriting Contested Illness \u003c\/i\u003einvestigates how uncertainty, doubt and dismissal, the key features of medical contestation, are mediated and transformed in women's experimental illness narratives. It discusses how a range of autobiographical experimentation in emerging and increasingly common subgenres like autofiction, autotheory, experimental memoir and the lyric essay, are creating productive new avenues for contested illnesses to be represented. These illnesses, which range in this book across hysteria, eating disorders, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and chronic Lyme disease, have been subject to constrictive medical practices, rendering the conditions illegitimate, under-studied and under-diagnosed. In observing how such narratives identify the rifts caused by medicalised contestation and identify key sites of repair within this sphere, this book argues that experimental life writing can be its own first-hand, affective and embodied source of medical knowledge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chloe R. Green\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1399534408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399534406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d","brand":"Chloe R. Green","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47474065506559,"sku":"9781399534406","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_35843309-66d2-4a9c-9c58-a9a804109b1d.jpg?v=1762314726","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/writing-contested-illness-chloe-r-green-9781399534406","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}