This book provides a unique consideration of the role of an increasingly common disease. By drawing together a wide range of recent contemporary thought and research, sharing a feminist perspective which asserts the presence of women with the disease, the many meanings of breast cancer are revealed. Individual chapters consider issues of risk, environmental justice, political activism in California, women's construction of breast cancer knowledge, popular media representations of the disease, and published autobiographical narratives.
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“Recommended for collections that support sociology of illness, feminist philosophy, and women's studies....” —Choice
“It contributes not only a greater understanding of breast cancer but also demonstrates how ideological analyses can expand scholarly explorations of other health topics.” —Contemporary Sociology
“It contributes not only a greater understanding of breast cancer but also demonstrates how ideological analyses can expand scholarly explorations of other health topics.” —Contemporary Sociology
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Laura K. Potts is Senior Tutor for Women's Studies in the Faculty of Social, Environmental, Health, and Life Sciences at the University College of Ripon and York St. John.
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In the United States, breast cancer is a disease about which there exist multiple, often conflictual and complex knowledges. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
annual breast screening, chemoprevention measures, breast cancer reporting, breast cancer movement, cancer activism, risk discourse, cancer industry, cancer narratives, corporeal model, reconstructed breasts, risk assessment science, prophylactic mastectomy, breast cancer awareness month, prophylactic surgery, risk assessment research, cancer activists, biomedical knowledge, breast cancer prevention, woman with breast cancer, taking tamoxifen, clinical gaze, hereditary breast cancer, breast reconstruction, clinical breast examination Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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annual breast screening, chemoprevention measures, breast cancer reporting, breast cancer movement, cancer activism, risk discourse, cancer industry, cancer narratives, corporeal model, reconstructed breasts, risk assessment science, prophylactic mastectomy, breast cancer awareness month, prophylactic surgery, risk assessment research, cancer activists, biomedical knowledge, breast cancer prevention, woman with breast cancer, taking tamoxifen, clinical gaze, hereditary breast cancer, breast reconstruction, clinical breast examination Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Francisco, New York, Toxic Tour, Bay Area, Scottish Mirror, Bayview Hunters Point, Cancer Walk, The Guardian, United States, The Observer, Komen Foundation, National Cancer Institute, The Sun, Cambridge University Press, University of California Press, University of Minnesota Press, African American, American Cancer Society, Department of Public Health, Nancy Brinker, Reconstructing the Body, Audre Lorde, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Indiana University Press, Kathy Acker New!
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- The Cancer Journals: The Original Edition by Audre Lorde on 4 pages
- Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag in Front Matter, page 58, and page 127
- Leaky Bodies and Boundaries: Feminism, Postmodernism and (Bio)ethics by Margrit Shildrick on page 126, and page 179
- Living Downstream by Sandra Steingraber in Front Matter, and page 96
- Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader by Mary Eagleton on page 126, and page 127
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- The Voice of Breast Cancer in Medicine and Bioethics (Philosophy and Medicine) by Mary C. Rawlinson on page 199, page 200, and page 201
- The Politics of Personalised Medicine: Pharmacogenetics in the Clinic (Cambridge Studies in Society and the Life Sciences) by Adam Hedgecoe in Back Matter
- Authority in Contention, Volume 25 (Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change) by D M Cress on page 277
- Body/embodiment: Symbolic Interaction And the Sociology of the Body by Dennis D. Waskul on page 48
- Identity and Health by David Kelleher on page 35
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