Open AccessCancer Butch
Author(s) -
JAIN S. LOCHLANN
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
cultural anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.669
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1548-1360
pISSN - 0886-7356
DOI - 10.1525/can.2007.22.4.501
Subject(s) - breast cancer , queer , politics , cancer , gender studies , sociology , psychoanalysis , psychology , medicine , political science , law
The academic literature still tends to take Audre Lorde as the primary feminist theorist of breast cancer, and her The Cancer Journals (1997) remains, nearly three decades out, the definitive word on breast cancer and gender theory. In this article, I revisit the cultures and politics of cancer, offering a queer analysis of breast cancer in the U.S.