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Prophylactic mastectomy : insights from women who chose to reduce their risk
\"This book presents the candid stories of women who chose to have their breasts surgically removed while they were still healthy, after genetic testing showed they possessed a gene that heightens their risk of developing breast cancer\"--Provided by publisher.
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Becoming-Amazon: Femininity, Embodiment, and Sexuality in a Photographic and Digital Breast Cancer Project
In recent decades, digital and photographic life narratives by women living with breast cancer and mastectomy have gained public visibility. This article examines how a documentary and fashion photography project in contemporary Berlin rethinks normative concepts of femininity, embodiment, and sexuality through the performance of the breast cancer patient as Amazon warrior. Based on feminist theory, disability studies, media studies, and in particular Gilles Deleuze's concept of becoming , I coin the term \"becoming-Amazon\" for the process of relational subjectivity formation that the project opens up. Uta Melle's project shifts notions of post-mastectomy bodies as unfeminine, incomplete, or asexual and envisions and celebrates a multiplicity of relational femininities, embodiments, and erotic zones with difference. By combining digital cancer activism and an aesthetics and politics of visibility, difference, and intercorporeality, Melle's project intervenes in contemporary cancer discourse and unsettles what has been considered as redemptive cancer culture.
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She Kept It to Herself
IGGIE WOLFINGTON OFTEN VISITED RESIDENTS OF THE MOTION PICture and Television Fund’s nursing home, part of an industry-supported retirement community in Woodland Hills, California. One day in the early 1970s, he arrived while Mary was visiting as well. “She was being very thoughtful with an old, cantankerous character actor,” a well-known, second-tier performer of about eighty whom Wolfington prefers not to name. Because Mary had been gracious to this actor, “the next time I was out there, I said, making conversation, ‘Have you seen Mary Wickes lately?’” Wolfington was startled when the man responded gruffly that he found Mary’s visits
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In this essay as in others in this issue, Michael Pollan's popular form of environmental food activism comes in for critique for its ethnocentricity and class bias, in contrast to documentary texts that contextualize issues such as Native American or African American women's obesity in terms of economic constraints and cultural stereotypes. [...]lines and spare but tough imagery, Lauren Camp's poems describe a mastectomy patient contemplating her body, an ashamed woman with an unfaithful lover, and a self-damaging anorexic who wears \"only the smallest wardrobe of self.\"
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The scholarly and creative work in this issue tackle a number of important topics long familiar to feminists: racialized appropriation; war, power, and female embodiment; the realities of exclusion and inclusion; sexual discrimination, abuse, and resistance. [...]our first cluster of articles addresses the consequences of hidden histories of experience that have generally been rendered invisible against the backdrop of more established feminist narratives of political activism. [...]Carrie N. Baker's \"Race, Class, and Sexual Harassment in the 19705\" reminds us that a great deal of the development in U.S. sexual harassment law was pioneered by women of color-and workingclass women at that-long before Anita Hill challenged Clarence Thomas before the nation's television cameras in the 19905. Feminism, Development, and the Grassroots Women's Movement in Peru,\" Annalise Moser discusses the politics of elite and grassroots volunteer women's organizations in Peru and the shifting politics of cooperation and competition among women's groups, which often opens the door for manipulation by the state as well as non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
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