Open AccessReview of DeShazer, Mammographies: The Cultural Discourses of Breast Cancer
Author(s) -
Kristen A. Hardy
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
canadian journal of disability studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1929-9192
DOI - 10.15353/cjds.v6i1.336
Subject(s) - adornment , breast cancer , anxiety , aesthetics , gender studies , function (biology) , sociology , psychology , medicine , art , cancer , biology , psychiatry , genetics
Women’s breasts hold a complex place in contemporary Western culture—as objects of fascination, sexualisation, fetishisation, adornment, nourishment, consternation, and regulation. For women themselves, they often serve as sites of anxiety and fear related to appearance, function, or health. For an unfortunate percentage, they also become the locus of cellular changes that will ultimately prove life-altering or even fatal.