Surrender Feminist Rhetoric and Ethics in Love and Illness

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In an ethnographic study spanning the last years of research collaborator and friend Susan Lundy Maute's life with terminal breast cancer, author Jessica Restaino argues the interpretative challenges posed by research and writing amid illness and intimacy demand a methodological break from accepted genres and established practices of knowledge making. Restaino searches their experiences-recorded in interviews, informal writings, and correspondence-to discover a rhetoric of love and illness. She encourages a synthesis of methods and the acceptance of a reversal of roles-researcher and researched, writer and written-about-and emphasizes the relevancy of methodological diversity, the necessity of the personal, and the analytical richness of unpredictability and risk in being who we are in our scholarship at any given moment.