ENGL 3603 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Betty Friedan

• School: Trent University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 3603
• Professor: Sally Chivers

Document Summary

The stories that ill people tell come out of their bodies. The body sets in motion the need for new stories when its disease disrupts the old stories. The body, whether still diseased or recovered, is simultaneously cause, topic, and instrument of whatever new stories are told. These embodied stories have two sides, one personal and the other social. Women aren"t given the same privileges, which is causing illness. Genre of fiction aimed at teens about trauma, usually illness. Literary portrayal and critique of medicine, disease, illness, cure. Pathology turning a person into an object because they are ill. September 16th to october 14th mental health.