Ideologies of Breast Cancer
Feminist Perspectives
Published on 11. October 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIV, 213 pages
978-0-333-75420-7 (ISBN)
Description
Ideologies of Breast Cancer provides a unique consideration of the role of this 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.
Reviews / Votes
'It should be required reading for any serious scholar searching for answers about breast cancer.' - Feminist Collections
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Edition
1999 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
XIV, 213 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-75420-7 (9780333754207)
Schweitzer Classification
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Book
10/1999
Palgrave Macmillan
€65.00
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Person
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
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