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OverviewEngaging with discussions surrounding the culture of disease, Disrupting Breast Cancer Narratives explores politically insistent narratives of illness. Resisting the optimism of pink ribbon culture, these stories use anger as a starting place to reframe cancer as a collective rather than an individual problem. Disrupting Breast Cancer Narratives discusses the ways emotion, gender, and sexuality, in relation to breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, all become complicated, relational, and questioning. Providing theoretically informed close-readings of breast cancer narratives, this study explores how disruption functions both personally and politically. Highlighting a number of contributors in the field of health and gender studies including Barbara Ehrenreich, Kathlyn Conway, Audre Lorde, and Teva Harrison, this work takes into account documentary film, television, and social media as popular mediums used to explore stories of disease. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Emilia NielsenPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.10cm Weight: 0.420kg ISBN: 9781487504373ISBN 10: 1487504373 Pages: 184 Publication Date: 15 January 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of Contents1 Shifting Public Perceptions of Breast Cancer Stories of Breast Cancer The Angry Breast Cancer Survivors Narrative Inquiry in Interdisciplinary Health Research Normative and Disruptive Stories Description of Chapters 2 Feminist Counternarratives Sharing Our Stories Breast Cancer Narratives in Public Feminist Narrative Bioethics, Illness Narratives, and the Medical Humanities Breast Cancer Narrative Ethics The Power of Counternarratives 3 Angry Stories of Survivorship Welcome to Cancerland Feeling Angry Challenging Happiness Contesting Survivorship The Cancer Journals Ordinary Life Bad Patient 4 Questioning Environmental Causation Chasing the Cancer Answer Cancer Killjoy The Problem with Personal Responsibility Crazy Sexy Cancer F**k Cancer 5 Queering Breast Cancer White Glasses Doing Elegiac Politics The Summer of Her Baldness Living Elegiac Politics The L Word Gender / Cancer Rage 6 The Power of Narrative Repair Revisiting Counternarratives Enacting Resistance Performing Patienthood Narrative Repair 7 Postscript: Screening Pink Ribbons, Inc Acknowledgments References IndexReviewsEmilia Nielsen explores graphic narrative, comics, and other media to critique breast cancer's cultural impact. Focusing on the performance of patienthood and survivorship in disruptive narratives, Emilia Nielsen clearly argues that personal narratives have the power to 'shift the public discourse' from its long tradition of mystifying the disease. - Jane E. Shultz, Professor, Department of English, Indiana University Emilia Nielsen impressively draws on, and enters in dialogue with, a wide range of recent scholarship addressing illness narratives and challenging mainstream breast cancer culture. Nielsen shows how the study of disruptive breast cancer narratives requires attention to the performativity of patienthood and resistance as well as to the entanglement of emotion, gender, and sexuality. - Stella Bolaki, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent """Emilia Nielsen explores graphic narrative, comics, and other media to critique breast cancer's cultural impact. Focusing on the performance of patienthood and survivorship in disruptive narratives, Emilia Nielsen clearly argues that personal narratives have the power to 'shift the public discourse' from its long tradition of mystifying the disease.""--Jane E. Shultz, Professor, Department of English, Indiana University ""Emilia Nielsen impressively draws on, and enters in dialogue with, a wide range of recent scholarship addressing illness narratives and challenging mainstream breast cancer culture. Nielsen shows how the study of disruptive breast cancer narratives requires attention to the performativity of patienthood and resistance as well as to the entanglement of emotion, gender, and sexuality.""--Stella Bolaki, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent" Author InformationEmilia Nielsen is Assistant Professor in the Health and Society program, Department of Social Science at York University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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