ABSTRACT
Marrying literary analysis with the personal, Wallace reflects on surviving ovarian cancer in the 1990s as markedly different from facing MS in the post-millennial age. She contrasts the two discursive moments, drawing upon the work of Marilyn Hacker and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick to situate the 1990s as a pivotal moment within illness rhetoric, then analyzes the cultural shift that informs Susan Gubar’s and her own post-millennial responses to illness. Shaped by online authoring practices in Web 2.0, women’s health narratives today—whether online, in print, or both—invite readers into an experience of illness that is raw, immediate and uncertain.
