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Performing identities in illness narrative: masculinity and multiple sclerosis

Catherine Kohler Riessman

Boston College, riessman{at}bc.edu

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.

Key Words: illness narrative • masculinity • multiple sclerosis

Qualitative Research, Vol. 3, No. 1, 5-33 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/146879410300300101
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