Disrupting breast cancer narratives : stories of rage and repair / Emilia Nielsen.
By: Nielsen, Emilia [author.].
Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, ©2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 175 p: 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781487504373; 1487504373.Subject(s): Breast -- Cancer -- Patients -- Psychology | Breast -- Cancer -- Psychological aspects | Breast cancer patients' writings | Breast Neoplasms -- psychology | Cancer Survivors -- psychology | Narration | Narrative Therapy | Personal Narratives as Topic | Sein -- Cancer -- Patients -- Psychologie | Sein -- Cancer -- Aspect psychologique | Écrits de femmes atteintes de cancer du sein | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare | Breast cancer patients' writings | Breast -- Cancer -- Psychological aspectsGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | RC280.B8 N537 2019 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000015829 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-166) and index.
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
"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."--