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Communication Studies and Feminist Perspectives on Ovarian Cancer

Communication Studies and Feminist Perspectives on Ovarian Cancer

Tetteh, Dinah A.

Hardcover

Series: Lexington Studies in Health Communication, Book 20

Public HealthGeneral ReferenceWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1498548113
ISBN13: 9781498548113
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Mar 15 2018
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Communication Studies and Feminist Perspectives on Ovarian Cancer examines the embodied experience of ovarian cancer by critically analyzing impacts of normative social and medical discourses--including discourses of risk, choice, early detection, lack of reliable screening tests for ovarian cancer, feminine beauty, and self-advocacy--on women's communicative responses to the disease and treatments. It argues that these discourses help discredit some ovarian cancer experiences, encourage a one-dimensional perspective on the disease, and divert attention from larger issues such as society's disregard for women's complaints about disease symptoms. Blanket promotion of these discourses essentializes women's experiences of the disease, pointing out how normative beliefs about women's health and illness are often flipped and repackaged as standard language to discuss women's experiences.

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