Pink Ribbon Blues - How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Women's Health

Zusatztext I felt I was listening to real women expressing their suffering, rather than watching lines of happy pink she-roes. [She-ro is the feminine form of hero.] Informationen zum Autor Gayle A. Sulik is a medical sociologist and was a 2008 Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities for her research on breast cancer culture. Klappentext Pink Ribbon Blues highlights the hidden costs of the 'pink ribbon' as an industry, one in which breast cancer has become merely a brand name with a pink logo. It presents a thought-provoking and probing argument against the industry of awareness-raising and includes stories from real-life breast cancer survivors and caregivers who have struggled with the pink ribbon ideal. Zusammenfassung Pink Ribbon Blues highlights the hidden costs of the 'pink ribbon' as an industry, one in which breast cancer has become merely a brand name with a pink logo. It presents a thought-provoking and probing argument against the industry of awareness-raising and includes stories from real-life breast cancer survivors and caregivers who have struggled with the pink ribbon ideal.

Product details

• Authors: Gayle A. Sulik, Sulik Gayle A.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.2010
• EAN: 9780199740451
• ISBN: 978-0-19-974045-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Social Work, Social, group or collective psychology, Social services & welfare, criminology, Social services and welfare, criminology