Apologies for cross-posting. For those of you who read Spanish and Catalan we aredelighted to announce the publication of our new volume “The (In)visible Scars: FeministPerspectives on Breast Cancer” (Cicatrius (in)visibles),edited by Ana Porroche-Escudero,Gerard Coll-Planas, and Caterina Riba by Eumo. The book, translatedinto in Catalan, demystifies the dominant discourses of pink ribbonculture, analyzes androcentric, political, and economic biases in breast cancerbiomedicine, and explores embodied resistance to socially constructed bodyrules and conventions about breast cancer.
The book features thecontribution of 22 international activists, performers, humanists, socialscientists and practitioners, including BegoñaArrieta, Mary Bryson, Grazia de Michele, Mari Luz Esteban, Beatriz Figueroa,Gerard Coll-Planas, Victoria Fernández, Teresa Forcades i Vila, JacquelineGahagan, Cinzia Greco, Tae Hart, Ainhoa Irueta, Caro Novella, Júlia Ojuel,Marisa Paituví, Ana Porroche-Escudero, Geneviève Rail, Caterina Riba, JaniceRistock, Dorothy Roberts, Gayle Sulik, Carme Valls-Llobet. Here is the table ofcontents: *Preface. Breast cancer: thefeminist rebellion has just started- Mari Luz Esteban
1. Introduction - Ana Porroche-Escudero, Caterina Riba and GerardColl-Planas
BLOCK I. THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF BREAST CANCER 2. The ideologicalcontext of the experience of breast cancer - Gerard Coll-Planas
3. Breast cancer movements: history, ideologies and politics - Gayle Sulik
4. Critical analysis of breast cancer awareness campaigns - AnaPorroche-Escudero
5. Cancer’s margins: sexual minorities, cancer care, knowledge andsubjectivities- Geneviève Rail, Mary Bryson, Tae Hart, Jacqueline Gahagan andJanice Ristock
BLOCK II. ANDROCENTRIC, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL BIASES INMEDICINE 6. Breast cancer: therelationship with the environmental and working conditions- CarmeValls-Llobet
7. Controversies on breast cancer screening: does it save lives or does it damagehealth? - Júlia Ojuel and Grazia de Michele
8. Breast reconstruction: The multiple ways to reconstruct femininity? Ananalysis of the strategies of femininity construction after mastectomy - CinziaGreco
9. The social context of oncofertility - Dorothy Roberts
10. Sexual desire, embodied knowledge and women cancer patients’ realisation oftheir sexual rights- Ana Porroche-Escudero and Begoña Arrieta
BLOCK III. PLURALISTIC FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNTS OF BREAST CANCER 11. Takingresponsibility for one’s body. Alternative narratives of cancer - CaterinaRiba
12. Economic rights of persons living with cancer - AnaPorroche-Escudero and Beatriz Figueroa
13. Experiencesand expressions of a contraphobic - VictoriaFernández
14. Oncogrrrls: dance asa political space for creating new narratives of breast cancer - CaroNovella and Marisa Paituví
15. Autobiography of a cancer-butch - Ainhoa Irueta
* Epilogue - TeresaForcades i Vila ----------Dr Ana Porroche-Escudero
Research Associate NIHR CLAHRC NWC
Division of Health ResearchFaculty of Health & MedicineFurness BuildingLancaster UniversityLA1 4YG
NIHR CLAHRC NWC Health Inequalities Assessment Toolkit: http://www.hiat.org.uk/
Breast Cancer Consortium, Changing the Paradigm: http://breastcancerconsortium.net/about/
Check the report of the International Symposium on Breast Cancer and Feminism here:Breast Cancer and Feminism - Breast Cancer Consortium
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