| Description |
1 online resource (248 pages). |
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Critical issues in health and medicine |
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Critical issues in health and medicine.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction : public discourse and the representation of the vulnerable empowered woman -- Theorizing postfeminist health -- Genetic risk : prophylactic mastectomies and the pursuit of cancer-free life -- Postfeminist risky mothers and postpartum depression -- The postfeminist concession : young women, sex, and paternalism -- Feminist women's health activism in the twenty-first century -- Afterword : from margin to center. |
| Summary |
The Vulnerable Empowered Woman assesses the state of women's healthcare today by analyzing popular media representations-television, print newspapers, websites, advertisements, blogs, and memoirs-in order to understand the ways in which breast cancer, postpartum depression, and cervical cancer are discussed in American public life. Tasha N. Dubriwny's analysis concludes with a call to re-politicize women's health through narratives that can help us imagine women, and their relationship to medi. |
| Subject |
Women -- Health and hygiene.
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Breast -- Cancer.
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Mastectomy.
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Postpartum depression.
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Cervix uteri -- Cancer -- Vaccination.
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Women's Health.
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Depression, Postpartum.
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Feminism.
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Mastectomy.
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Papillomavirus Vaccines.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Women's Health.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
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| Added Title |
Feminism, postfeminism, and women's health |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Dubriwny, Tasha N., 1976- Vulnerable/empowered woman. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2012 9780813554013 (DLC) 2011053240 (OCoLC)779527294 |
| ISBN |
9780813554020 (electronic bk.) |
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0813554020 (electronic bk.) |
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