Globalism and Gendering Cancer: Tracking the Trope of Oncogenic Women from the Us to Kenya

ISBN-13: 9781032176567 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 140 str.

Miriam O'Kane Mara

Opis

This book connects a rhetorical examination of medical and public health policy documents with a humanistic investigation of cultural texts to uncover the link between gendered representations of health and cancer.

Spis treści

Chapter One: Introduction: Rhetorical Checkpoints Chapter Two: Oncogenic Women in a Cancer Culturescape Chapter Three: Tracing Kenya’s Culturescape: Cancer as Gendered Weakness in Place of Destiny Chapter Four: Kenyan Healthscapes: Oncogenic Women in the Nairobi Cancer Registry Chapter Five: Kenya’s Health Professionals Speak: Attitudes about Cancer in the Field Chapter Six: Conclusion: Saratani Going Forward

O autorze

Miriam O’Kane Mara is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University. Her research interests include medical and health discourses, Irish literature & film, and food studies. In all of these contexts, her work examines the intersections between landscapes, bodies, texts, and discourses. Publications appear in Technical Communication Quarterly, New Hibernia Review, Feminist Formations, and Irish Studies Review.