Early detection : women, cancer, & awareness campaigns in the twentieth-century United States / Kirsten E. Gardner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gardner, Kirsten E. (Kirsten Elizabeth)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cancer in women--Social aspects--History--20th century.

Cancer in women.

Cancer in women--Political aspects--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Aims to dispel the common notion that American women became activists in the fight against female cancer only after the 1970's. This book offers an examination of films, publications, health fairs, and archival materials and traces women's cancer education campaigns back to the early twentieth century.

Contents:

Look cancer straight in the face: public discussions of women's cancers in the early twentieth century

Expanding networks of women: the Amanda Sims Memorial Fund and the Women's Field Army

From awareness to screening: early detection redefined

Cancer survivors: public discussions of postdiagnostic concerns

Screening technology, feminist health movement, cancer critics.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-276) and index.

ISBN:

9798890878373

9780807877128

0807877123

OCLC:

476236703