TY  - BOOK
AU  - DeShazer,Mary K.
TI  - Mammographies: The Cultural Discourses of Breast Cancer Narratives 
SN  - 9780472029235
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - Social Science / Women's Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - While breast cancer continues to affect the lives of millions, contemporary writers and artists have responded to the ravages of the disease in creative expression. Mary K. DeShazer's book looks specifically at breast cancer memoirs and photographic narratives, a category she refers to as mammographies, signifying both the imaging technology by which most Western women discover they have this disease and the documentary imperatives that drive their written and visual accounts of it. Mammographies argues that breast cancer narratives of the past ten years differ from their predecessors in their bold address of previously neglected topics such as the link between cancer and environmental carcinogens, the ethics and efficacy of genetic testing and prophylactic mastectomy, and the shifting politics of prosthesis and reconstruction
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/bc355284-6df2-4c18-8983-c2756b5df5ac
ER  -