The vulnerable empowered woman : feminism, postfeminism, and women's health /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dubriwny, Tasha N., 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
Series:Critical issues in health and medicine.
Subjects:
Women > Health and hygiene.
Breast > Cancer.
Mastectomy.
Postpartum depression.
Cervix uteri > Cancer > Vaccination.
Feminism.
Papillomavirus vaccines.
Women's Health
Breast Neoplasms
Depression, Postpartum
Feminism
Mastectomy
Papillomavirus Vaccines
Sein > Cancer.
Mastectomie.
Dépression du post-partum.
Col de l'utérus > Cancer > Vaccination.
Femmes > Santé et hygiène.
Féminisme.
Vaccins antipapillomavirus.
feminism.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Women's Health.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Papillomavirus vaccines
Breast > Cancer
Postpartum depression
Women > Health and hygiene
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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