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The vulnerable empowered woman : feminism, postfeminism, and women's health / Tasha N. Dubriwny.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical issues in health and medicinePublisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (248 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813554020
  • 0813554020
  • 1283684020
  • 9781283684026
Other title:
  • Feminism, postfeminism, and women's health
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Vulnerable/empowered woman.DDC classification:
  • 613/.04244 23
LOC classification:
  • RA778
NLM classification:
  • WA 309.1
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : public discourse and the representation of the vulnerable empowered woman -- Theorizing postfeminist health -- Genetic risk : prophylactic mastectomies and the pursuit of cancer-free life -- Postfeminist risky mothers and postpartum depression -- The postfeminist concession : young women, sex, and paternalism -- Feminist women's health activism in the twenty-first century -- Afterword : from margin to center.
Summary: The Vulnerable Empowered Woman assesses the state of women's healthcare today by analyzing popular media representations-television, print newspapers, websites, advertisements, blogs, and memoirs-in order to understand the ways in which breast cancer, postpartum depression, and cervical cancer are discussed in American public life. Tasha N. Dubriwny's analysis concludes with a call to re-politicize women's health through narratives that can help us imagine women, and their relationship to medi.
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Introduction : public discourse and the representation of the vulnerable empowered woman -- Theorizing postfeminist health -- Genetic risk : prophylactic mastectomies and the pursuit of cancer-free life -- Postfeminist risky mothers and postpartum depression -- The postfeminist concession : young women, sex, and paternalism -- Feminist women's health activism in the twenty-first century -- Afterword : from margin to center.

The Vulnerable Empowered Woman assesses the state of women's healthcare today by analyzing popular media representations-television, print newspapers, websites, advertisements, blogs, and memoirs-in order to understand the ways in which breast cancer, postpartum depression, and cervical cancer are discussed in American public life. Tasha N. Dubriwny's analysis concludes with a call to re-politicize women's health through narratives that can help us imagine women, and their relationship to medi.

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