Ideologies of Breast Cancer: Feminist Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780333754207 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 213 str.

Potts Laura K; L. Potts

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'It should be required reading for any serious scholar searching for answers about breast cancer.' - Feminist Collections

Spis treści

Preface Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction PART I: MEANINGS OF BREAST CANCER Problematizing Biomedicine: Women's Constructions of Breast Cancer Knowledge; J.Fosket Sexualised Illness: The Newsworthy Body in Media Representations of Breast Cancer; C.Saywell Racing for the Cure, Walking Women, and Toxic Touring: Mapping Cultures of Action within the Bay Area Terrain of Breast Cancer; M.Klawiter Publishing the Personal: Autobiographical Narratives of Breast Cancer and the Self; L.Potts PART II: DISCOURSES OF RISK AND BREAST CANCER Controversies in Breast Cancer Prevention: The Discourse of Risk; C.Simpson Reconstructing the Body or Reconstructing the Woman? Problems of Prophylactic Mastectomy for Hereditary Breast Cancer Risk; N.Hallowell Assessing Breast Cancer: Risk, Science and Environmental Activism in an 'At Risk' Community; J.Fishman Index

O autorze

JENNIFER FISHMAN Doctoral Student in Sociology, Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of California, San Francisco JENNIFER FOSKET Doctoral Candidate in Sociology, University of California, San Francisco NINA HALLOWELL Senior Research Associate, Centre for Family Research, Cambridge University, England MAREN KLAWITER PhD Student, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley CERISE SAYWELL CHRISTY SIMPSON PhD Candidate in Philosophy, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada