Illness And Internet Empowerment: Writing And Reading Breast Cancer In Cyberspace  

Oleh:

Pitts, Victoria L.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine vol. 8 no. 1 (Jan. 2004), page 33–59.
Topik: breast cancer; cyberspace; gender and illness; Internet
Fulltext: 33H81.pdf (142.69KB)

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The Internet is now a site where women with breast cancer both read and write about the illness, and in doing so negotiate identity and defi- nitions of situation in disembodied space. Cyberspace has been imagined as a liberatory realm where women can transgress gender roles, invent selves and create new forms of knowledge. This study explores the personal web pages of women with breast cancer with an interest in exploring the issue of ‘cyber-agency’ or empowerment in cyberspace. I suggest here that women’s web pages might offer potentially critical opportunities for women’s knowledge- making in relation to what are often highly political aspects of the body, gender and illness. However, the Internet is not an inherently empowering technology, and it can be a medium for affirming norms of femininity, consumerism, individualism and other powerful social messages.

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