Ideologies of Breast Cancer

JENNIFER FISHMAN Doctoral Student in Sociology, Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of California, San Francisco JENNIFER FOSKET Doctoral Candidate in Sociology, University of California, San Francisco NINA HALLOWELL Senior Research Associate, Centre for Family Research, Cambridge University, England MAREN KLAWITER PhD Student, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley CERISE SAYWELL CHRISTY SIMPSON PhD Candidate in Philosophy, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada

Preface Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction PART I: MEANINGS OF BREAST CANCER Problematizing Biomedicine: Women's Constructions of Breast Cancer Knowledge; J.Fosket Sexualised Illness: The Newsworthy Body in Media Representations of Breast Cancer; C.Saywell Racing for the Cure, Walking Women, and Toxic Touring: Mapping Cultures of Action within the Bay Area Terrain of Breast Cancer; M.Klawiter Publishing the Personal: Autobiographical Narratives of Breast Cancer and the Self; L.Potts PART II: DISCOURSES OF RISK AND BREAST CANCER Controversies in Breast Cancer Prevention: The Discourse of Risk; C.Simpson Reconstructing the Body or Reconstructing the Woman? Problems of Prophylactic Mastectomy for Hereditary Breast Cancer Risk; N.Hallowell Assessing Breast Cancer: Risk, Science and Environmental Activism in an 'At Risk' Community; J.Fishman Index