Bodies Unbound : : Gender-Specific Cancer and Biolegitimacy / / Piper Sledge.
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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English |
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Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (186 p.) :; 4 tables, 3 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Cancer in the Public Imagination
- Chapter 1 Entering Enemy Territory?
- Chapter 2 Choosing Mastectomy
- Chapter 3 Returning to Normal
- Chapter 4 Ideologies of Gender in Surgical Cancer Care
- Conclusion: Gendered Biolegitimacy and the Medical Profession
- Appendix A: Methodological Note
- Appendix B: Internet Resources on Flat Closures
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author