Gender, Power, and Feminisms in Breast Cancer Advocacy...

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Vol. 1, No. 1, 2014

University at Albany (USA)

University of Wroclaw

Gender, Power, and Feminisms in Breast Cancer Advocacy:

Lessons from the United States and Poland

112 GAYLE SULIK, EDYTA ZIERKIEWICZ

Introduction

Gender, Power, and Feminisms in Breast Cancer Advocacy 113

Amazons

Feminist influences in the U.S. breast cancer movement

feminist

Harper’s Magazine

How did thepoliticized feminist stance that galvanized much of the early breastcancer movement transform into a feminized consumption basedaesthetic?

The feminization of breast cancer

She-roic survivorship and the masculine/feminine ethoi of U.S. cancer culture

STRONG

strong independentforward overcome

Saturday Night Live

ideal type

Resisting the de-politicization of mainstream breast cancer campaigns

The Polish breast cancer movement

status quo

Lack of feminist discourse in Polish breast cancer culture

sui generis

raisond’être

The trouble with gender: half-woman, holy mary, and the performance of womanhood as a group strategy

for inspiring solidarity and benevolence

et al.

Women’s health, feminism, and epistemologies of ignorance

1. Knowing That We Do Not Know, But Not Caring To Know

Being an informed medical consumer is not always somethingpeople want to do or feel capable of doing. the social obligation to beinformed pressures even these people to find a way to get enough information to feel that they have made the best choices for themselves.

2. We Do Not Even Know That We Do Not Know

enough

3. They Do Not Want Us To Know

4. Willful Ignorance

5. Ignorance Produced By The Construction Of Epistemically Disadvantaged Identities

Our Bodies, Our Selves

survivor

Twój Styl

6. Loving Ignorance

body of evidence

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

PinkRibbon Blues: How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Women’s Health

Rozmowy o rakupiersi. Trzy poziomy konstruowania znacze choroby

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