Overview

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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Author:   L. Potts
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.296kg
ISBN:  

9780333754207

ISBN 10:   0333754204
Pages:   213
Publication Date:   11 October 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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

Author Information

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.

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