White, L. orcid.org/0000-0002-6704-4054 (2023) From the home to the (hand)bag: negotiating privacy in personal life when living with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Sociology, 57 (4). pp. 904-920. ISSN 0038-0385
Abstract
Securing, and negotiating, privacy with intimate bodily needs is an ordinary but often hidden feature of our personal lives. Drawing upon a UK-based qualitative study that utilised diaries and follow-up interviews to explore everyday life with the health condition irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), this article explores the navigations of privacy when anticipating or experiencing symptoms. Building upon sociological understandings of privacy and personal life, this article maps the intimate and mobile ways in which privacy is sought out – disrupted or achieved – in domestic, material and public realms. It does so by following the paths to privacy and the personal belongings carried as they move through personal life. The article demonstrates how privacy is embodied and spatially, temporally, relationally and materially shaped. In doing so, the article argues that privacy comes to shift through everyday contexts and social relations with intimate materialities in mind.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | irritable bowel syndrome (IBS); materiality; personal life; privacy; public |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Economic and Social Research Council ES/V009397/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 04 Aug 2022 14:16 |
Last Modified: | 04 Jul 2024 14:45 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/00380385221122460 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:189368 |