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From Pink to Green

Ley, Barbara L

2009

Overview

From the early 1980s, the U.S. environmental breast cancer movement has championed the goal of eradicating the disease by emphasizing the importance of reducing-even eliminating exposure to chemicals and toxins.From Pink to Greenchronicles the movement's disease prevention philosophy from the beginning.Challenging the broader cultural milieu of pink ribbon symbolism and breast cancer \"awareness\" campaigns, this movement has grown from a handful of community-based organizations into a national entity, shaping the cultural, political, and public health landscape. Much of the activists' everyday work revolves around describing how the so called \"cancer industry\" downplays possible environmental links to protect their political and economic interests and they demand that the public play a role in scientific, policy, and public health decision-making to build a new framework of breast cancer prevention. From Pink to Greensuccessfully explores the intersection between breast cancer activism and the environmental health sciences, incorporating public and scientific debates as well as policy implications to public health and environmental agendas.

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Subject: 1980s / 20th century / 21st century / activism / activist / agenda / awareness / Barbara L. Ley / beliefs / Breast / Breast -- Cancer -- Environmental aspects / Breast -- Cancer -- Prevention / Breast -- Cancer -- United States -- History -- 20th century / Breast -- Cancer -- United States -- History -- 21st century / breast cancer / Breast Neoplasms / Breast Neoplasms -- etiology -- United States / Breast Neoplasms -- history -- United States / Breast Neoplasms -- prevention & control -- United States / breasts / campaign / Cancer / cancer awareness / cancer industry / chemicals / community / Consumer Participation / Consumer Participation -- history -- United States / cultural / cultural politics / Decision making / disease / disease prevention / economic / eliminate exposure / environment / environmental / Environmental aspects / environmental efforts / Environmental Exposure / Environmental Exposure -- United States / Environmentalism / Environmentalism -- United States / etiology / evidence / exposure / female / green / Health and Medicine / Health Sciences / History / History, 20th Century / History, 20th Century -- United States / History, 21st Century / History, 21st Century -- United States / issues / MEDICAL / MEDICAL / General / MEDICAL / Public Health / Medical sciences / milieu / movement / national entity / Non-governmental organizations / organization / philosophy / pink / pink ribbon / policy / policy wonk / political / Prevention / prevention & control / public debate / Public Health / regulations / scientific / scientific debate / scientist / sisterhood / social / social environmental / SOCIAL SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies / Sociology / toxic / toxins / U.S environmental breast cancer movement / U.S.A / United States / women / Women's Studies / women’s health
• ISBN: 9780813556529, 081355652X, 0813545315, 9780813545318, 0813545307, 9780813545301