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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
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Introduction
Gender, Power, and Feminisms in Breast Cancer Advocacy 113
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Amazons
Gender, Power, and Feminisms in Breast Cancer Advocacy 115
Feminist influences in the U.S. breast cancer movement
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feminist
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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
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She-roic survivorship and the masculine/feminine ethoi of U.S. cancer culture
Gender, Power, and Feminisms in Breast Cancer Advocacy 119
STRONG
STRONG
STRONG
STRONG
STRONG
strong independentforward overcome
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Saturday Night Live
ideal type
Gender, Power, and Feminisms in Breast Cancer Advocacy 121
Resisting the de-politicization of mainstream breast cancer campaigns
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The Polish breast cancer movement
Gender, Power, and Feminisms in Breast Cancer Advocacy 123
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status quo
Lack of feminist discourse in Polish breast cancer culture
sui generis
Gender, Power, and Feminisms in Breast Cancer Advocacy 125
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Gender, Power, and Feminisms in Breast Cancer Advocacy 127
raisond’être
The trouble with gender: half-woman, holy mary, and the performance of womanhood as a group strategy
for inspiring solidarity and benevolence
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et al.
et al
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Women’s health, feminism, and epistemologies of ignorance
Gender, Power, and Feminisms in Breast Cancer Advocacy 131
1. Knowing That We Do Not Know, But Not Caring To Know
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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.
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2. We Do Not Even Know That We Do Not Know
enough
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3. They Do Not Want Us To Know
et al
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et al
4. Willful Ignorance
et al
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Gender, Power, and Feminisms in Breast Cancer Advocacy 137
5. Ignorance Produced By The Construction Of Epistemically Disadvantaged Identities
Our Bodies, Our Selves
survivor
Twój Styl
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6. Loving Ignorance
body of evidence
Gender, Power, and Feminisms in Breast Cancer Advocacy 139
Conclusion
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Acknowledgments
PinkRibbon Blues: How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Women’s Health
Rozmowy o rakupiersi. Trzy poziomy konstruowania znacze choroby
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