Breast Cancer: Feminism, Representations And Resistance – A Commentary On Dorothy Broom’s ‘Reading Breast Cancer’  

Oleh:

Wilkinson, Sue

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine vol. 5 no. 2 (Apr. 2001), page 269-277.
Topik: breast cancer; concealment; discourses and practices; feminism; thinking positive
Fulltext: 269H52.pdf (38.64KB)

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In this commentary, I identify two sets of coercive ‘discourses and practices’ which typically oppress women with breast cancer: the imperative of concealment and the notion of personal blame and responsibility for their illness. I examine how a feminist analysis can support and encourage resistance to such coercive ‘discourses and practices’, and I argue for a thoroughgoing feminist approach to breast cancer more generally.

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