Communiquer l’invisible

Chronic pain affects approximately one in four people in Canada, with a higher proportion of women. Although women are overrepresented in many pain conditions and experience more severe, more frequent, more diffuse, and more disabling pain, chronic pain does not seem to have been conceptualized as a...

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Main Author: Catherine Côté
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Association Genres, sexualités, langage 2022-12-01
Series:Glad!
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/glad/5570
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description Chronic pain affects approximately one in four people in Canada, with a higher proportion of women. Although women are overrepresented in many pain conditions and experience more severe, more frequent, more diffuse, and more disabling pain, chronic pain does not seem to have been conceptualized as a feminist issue. This article uses an auto-ethnographic approach to analyze how the daily experience of chronic pain is a feminist issue. Two main themes are analyzed through the author’s daily experience of chronic pain, namely 1) the difficulties related to the recognition of pain, particularly important for women and people belonging to other marginalized groups or standing at the intersection of various identities, and 2) the reinforcement of chronic pain experience by different oppression systems such as classism, capitalism, ableism, and patriarchy.
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Communiquer l’invisible
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feminism
Chronic pain
oppression systems
credibility
communication of pain
title Communiquer l’invisible
title_full Communiquer l’invisible
title_fullStr Communiquer l’invisible
title_full_unstemmed Communiquer l’invisible
title_short Communiquer l’invisible
title_sort communiquer l invisible
topic feminism
Chronic pain
oppression systems
credibility
communication of pain
url https://journals.openedition.org/glad/5570
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