Identity Actions: Bringing about Social Change

Abstract

It has been shown in this book that women construct their health identity throughout their whole life using medical milestones of women’s health and social experiences of health as chronological touchstones and markers of meaning-making. The personal monitoring of the holistic health status in the narrative accounts has been integrated with interpersonal experiences of health, and embodiment of health identity in society, to theorise the construction of a health identity that included the possibility of fluidity and flexibility in the light of both illness and wellbeing.