Ideologies of Breast Cancer
Feminist Perspectives
Published on 21. October 1999
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-0-333-75419-1 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
tables, graphs, photographs, index
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 141 mm
Weight
482 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-75419-1 (9780333754191)
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Book
10/1999
Palgrave Macmillan
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Person
LAURA 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, in York, UK. She has taught widely in adult, further and higher education for many years while also maintaining an involvement in feminist activism and women's health (currently as a member of 'free radicals', campaigning on breast cancer and the environment), and organic food growing. Her poetry has been published in various anthologies.
Content
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