Tasha N Dubriwny

The Vulnerable Empowered Woman

Feminism, Postfeminism, and Women's Health

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780813554006
• ISBN-10: 0813554004
• Artikelnr.: 36633954

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Public Discourse and the Representation of the Vulnerable
Empowered Woman
1. Theorizing Postfeminist Health: Risk and the Postfeminist Subject
2. Genetic Risk: Prophylactic Mastectomies and the Pursuit of Cancer-Free
Life
3. Postfeminist Risky Mothers and Postpartum Depression
4. The Postfeminist Concession: Young Women, Sex, and Paternalism
5. Feminist Women's Health Activism in the Twenty-first Century
Afterword: From Martin to Center
Notes
Bibliography
Index