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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1300/J013v20n04_06" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://doi.org/10.1300/J013v20n04_06</a>
Pages
81–100
Issue
4
Volume
20
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Title
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"Your breasts/sliced off": literary images of breast cancer.
Publisher
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Women & health
Date
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1993
1993
Subject
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Adult; Female; Humans; Middle Aged; *Women's Health; *Medicine in Literature; Mastectomy/*psychology; North America; *Poetry as Topic; *Drama; Breast Neoplasms/*psychology/surgery; Denial (Psychology); Stress; Psychological/*etiology
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Wear D
Description
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This essay explores how breast cancer and mastectomy are portrayed in twentieth-century North American literature. The purpose in doing so is to examine our understandings of how women in contemporary North American culture may experience this potentially fatal disease and disfigurement-understandings that often are narrowly prescribed by the abstract, universalizing language of medicine. The essay is divided into four sections based on the readings of the selected literature: denial and fear; sadness and pain; shame through others' eyes; and transcendence.
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1300/J013v20n04_06" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1300/J013v20n04_06</a>
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*Drama
*Medicine in Literature
*Poetry as Topic
*women's health
1993
Adult
Breast Neoplasms/*psychology/surgery
Denial (Psychology)
Department of Family & Community Medicine
Female
Humans
Mastectomy/*psychology
Middle Aged
NEOMED College of Medicine
North America
Psychological/*etiology
Stress
Wear D
Women & health