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Book SynopsisDisrupting Breast Cancer Narratives: Stories of Rage and Repair explores politically insistent illness narratives.
Table of Contents1 Shifting Public Perceptions of Breast Cancer Stories of Breast Cancer “The Angry Breast Cancer Survivors” Narrative Inquiry in Interdisciplinary Health Research Normative and Disruptive Stories Description of Chapters 2 Feminist Counternarratives Sharing Our Stories Breast Cancer Narratives in Public Feminist Narrative Bioethics, Illness Narratives, and the Medical Humanities Breast Cancer Narrative Ethics The Power of Counternarratives 3 Angry Stories of Survivorship “Welcome to Cancerland” Feeling Angry Challenging Happiness Contesting Survivorship The Cancer Journals Ordinary Life Bad Patient 4 Questioning Environmental Causation Chasing the Cancer Answer Cancer Killjoy The Problem with Personal Responsibility Crazy Sexy Cancer F**k Cancer 5 Queering Breast Cancer “White Glasses” Doing Elegiac Politics The Summer of Her Baldness Living Elegiac Politics The L Word Gender / Cancer Rage 6 The Power of Narrative Repair Revisiting Counternarratives Enacting Resistance Performing Patienthood Narrative Repair 7 Postscript: Screening Pink Ribbons, Inc Acknowledgments References Index
