Bodies Unbound : Gender-Specific Cancer and Biolegitimacy /

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Bodies Unbound is a story about the relationship between bodies and gender. Drawing on the experiences of individuals whose bodies and gender identities don't match medical and social expectations, Piper Sledge explores how ideologies of gendered bodies shape medical care when medical professio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sledge, Piper (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
Colección:Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Temas:
Breast > Cancer > Psychology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
medical care, gendered bodies shape, transgender men, preventative gynecological care, gynecological care, cisgender men, cancer, breast cancer, cisgender women, cisgender, prophylactic mastectomies, bodies, gender, medical, medicine, medical professionals, gynecological, Mastectomy, surgery, Surgical Cancer Care, healthcare, womanhood, femininity, Biolegitimacy, elective prophylactic mastectomy, BRCA positive diagnoses, BRCA, transgender, social expectations.
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Sumario:Bodies Unbound is a story about the relationship between bodies and gender. Drawing on the experiences of individuals whose bodies and gender identities don't match medical and social expectations, Piper Sledge explores how ideologies of gendered bodies shape medical care when medical professionals use their position of authority to dictate which combinations of bodies and genders are legitimate or not.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (186 p.) : 4 tables, 3 halftones
ISBN:9781978815827
9783110754001
9783110753776
9783110754186
9783110753967
9783110739138
Acceso:restricted access

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