The Vulnerable Empowered Woman Feminism, Postfeminism, and Women's Health |
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| Author:
| Dubriwny, Tasha N. |
| Series title: | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8135-5400-6 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2012 |
| Publisher: | Rutgers University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $40.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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 medicine, differently.