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Disrupting Breast Cancer Narratives
Stories of Rage and Repair
Emilia Nielsen (Author)
9781487504373
Hardback, published 15 January 2019
184 pages
23.1 x 15 x 2 cm, 0.42 kg
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 an 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.
1 Shifting Public Perceptions of Breast Cancer 2 Feminist Counternarratives 3 Angry Stories of Survivorship 4 Questioning Environmental Causation 5 Queering Breast Cancer 6 The Power of Narrative Repair 7 Postscript: Screening Pink Ribbons, Inc Acknowledgments
Stories of Breast Cancer
"The Angry Breast Cancer Survivors"
Narrative Inquiry in Interdisciplinary Health Research
Normative and Disruptive Stories
Description of Chapters
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
"Welcome to Cancerland"
Feeling Angry
Challenging Happiness
Contesting Survivorship
The Cancer Journals
Ordinary Life
Bad Patient
Chasing the Cancer Answer
Cancer Killjoy
The Problem with Personal Responsibility
Crazy Sexy Cancer
F**k Cancer
"White Glasses"
Doing Elegiac Politics
The Summer of Her Baldness
Living Elegiac Politics
The L Word
Gender / Cancer Rage
Revisiting Counternarratives
Enacting Resistance
Performing Patienthood
Narrative Repair
References
Index