"Your breasts/sliced off": literary images of breast cancer.

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  • Author(s): Wear D;Wear D
  • Source:
    Women & health [Women Health] 1993; Vol. 20 (4), pp. 81-100.
  • Publication Type:
    Journal Article
  • Language:
    English
  • Additional Information
    • Source:
      Publisher: Routledge Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 7608076 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 0363-0242 (Print) Linking ISSN: 03630242 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Women Health Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Publication: Philadelphia : Routledge
      Original Publication: Old Westbury, N. Y., Biological Sciences Program, State Univ. of New York, College at Old Westbury.
    • Subject Terms:
      Drama* ; Medicine in Literature* ; Poetry as Topic* ; Women's Health*; Breast Neoplasms/*psychology ; Mastectomy/*psychology ; Stress, Psychological/*etiology; Adult ; Breast Neoplasms/surgery ; Denial, Psychological ; Female ; Humans ; Middle Aged ; North America
    • Abstract:
      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.
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 19930101 Date Completed: 19940601 Latest Revision: 20191210
    • Publication Date:
      20250114
    • Accession Number:
      10.1300/J013v20n04_06
    • Accession Number:
      8171878