Disrupting Breast Cancer Narratives : Stories of Rage and Repair / Emilia Nielsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nielsen, Emilia, 1977- author.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Breast--Cancer--Patients--Psychology.

Breast.

Breast--Cancer--Psychological aspects.

Breast cancer patients' writings.

Breast--Cancer--Patients.

Psychology.

Physical Description:

vi, 175 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Engaging 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 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; 1. 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; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

1487504373

9781487504373

OCLC:

1065733569

Publisher Number:

99979299420