Bodies Unbound - Gender-Specific Cancer and Biolegitimacy

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 use their position of authority to dictate which combinations of bodies and genders are legitimate or not. 

List of contents

List of Tables

List of Images

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Entering Enemy Territory                  

2. Choosing Mastectomy                       

3. Returning to Normal  

4. Ideologies of Gender in Surgical Cancer Care                            

Conclusion

Methodological Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

 

About the author

PIPER SLEDGE is an assistant professor of sociology and affiliated faculty with the Gender and Sexuality Studies, Health Studies, and Africana Studies programs at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania.

 

Summary

A comparative study showing how ideologies of gendered bodies shape medical care and the ways in which patients respond to these ideologies through decisions about their bodies using three cases: transgender men seeking preventative gynecological care, cisgender men diagnosed with breast cancer, and cisgender women with breast cancer.

Product details

• Authors: Piper Sledge
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781978815797
• ISBN: 978-1-978815-79-7
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Critical Issues in Health and; Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series; Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine