The Vulnerable Empowered Woman - Feminism, Postfeminism, and Women's Health

Informationen zum Autor TASHA N. DUBRIWNY is an assistant professor in the Women's and Gender Studies Program and the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University. Klappentext Assesses the state of women's healthcare today by analysing 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Public Discourse and the Representation of the Vulnerable Empowered Woman1. Theorizing Postfeminist Health: Risk and the Postfeminist Subject2. Genetic Risk: Prophylactic Mastectomies and the Pursuit of Cancer-Free Life3. Postfeminist Risky Mothers and Postpartum Depression4. The Postfeminist Concession: Young Women, Sex, and Paternalism5. Feminist Women's Health Activism in the Twenty-first CenturyAfterword: From Martin to CenterNotesBibliographyIndex

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Tasha Dubriwny, Tasha N Dubriwny, Tasha N. Dubriwny
• Editore: Rutgers University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.09.2012
• EAN: 9780813554006
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-5400-6
• Pagine: 248
• Dimensioni: 155 mm x 230 mm x 15 mm
• Serie: Critical Issues in Health and; Critical Issues in Health and
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Tematiche generali