Protecting the Breast and Promoting Femininity: The Breast Cancer Movement's Production of Fear Through a Rhetoric of Risk
Tremendously popular in American society, the breast cancer movement functions through a rhetoric of risk to persuade women to monitor their breasts and thus medicalize their bodies. The vast majority of breast cancer literature available is specifically aimed at women with breast cancer, while the...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32102 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05022004-184942/ |