Bodies unbound : gender-specific cancer and biolegitimacy /
Sledge, Piper,
Bodies unbound : gender-specific cancer and biolegitimacy / Piper Sledge. - 1 online resource (185 p.). - Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Ser. . - Critical issues in health and medicine. .
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Entering Enemy Territory? -- Chapter 2. Choosing Mastectomy -- Chapter 3. Returning to Normal -- Chapter 4. Ideologies of Gender in Surgical Cancer Care -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Methodological Note -- Appendix B: Internet Resources on Flat Closures -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author -- Series Titles
"Bodies Unbound: Gender-Specific Cancer and Biolegitimacy is a comparative study showing how ideologies of gendered bodies shape medical care and the ways in which patients respond to these ideologies through decisions about their bodies using three cases: transgender men seeking preventative gynecological care, cisgender men diagnosed with breast cancer, and cisgender women with breast cancer who elect to undergo prophylactic mastectomies. Bodies Unbound is a story about how the relationship between bodies and gender becomes socially intelligible as well as how medical professionals use their position of relative authority over bodies to dictate which combinations of bodies and genders are legitimate or not. Drawing on the experiences of individuals whose bodies and gender identities don't match medical and social expectations for gynecological and breast cancer care, Sledge unravels the taken-for-granted alignment of bodies and gender that provide the foundation of medical care in the United States"--
1978815824 9781978815803 (electronic bk.) 1978815808 (electronic bk.) 9781978815827 (electronic bk.)
Breast--Cancer--Psychology.
Gender identity.
Social perception.
Breast Neoplasms--psychology
Breast Neoplasms, Male--psychology
Transgender Persons
Gender Identity
Social Perception
Sein--Cancer--Psychologie.
Identité sexuelle.
Perception sociale.
sex role.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
RC280 / .S54 2021
616.99/449
WP 870
Bodies unbound : gender-specific cancer and biolegitimacy / Piper Sledge. - 1 online resource (185 p.). - Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Ser. . - Critical issues in health and medicine. .
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Entering Enemy Territory? -- Chapter 2. Choosing Mastectomy -- Chapter 3. Returning to Normal -- Chapter 4. Ideologies of Gender in Surgical Cancer Care -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Methodological Note -- Appendix B: Internet Resources on Flat Closures -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author -- Series Titles
"Bodies Unbound: Gender-Specific Cancer and Biolegitimacy is a comparative study showing how ideologies of gendered bodies shape medical care and the ways in which patients respond to these ideologies through decisions about their bodies using three cases: transgender men seeking preventative gynecological care, cisgender men diagnosed with breast cancer, and cisgender women with breast cancer who elect to undergo prophylactic mastectomies. Bodies Unbound is a story about how the relationship between bodies and gender becomes socially intelligible as well as how medical professionals use their position of relative authority over bodies to dictate which combinations of bodies and genders are legitimate or not. Drawing on the experiences of individuals whose bodies and gender identities don't match medical and social expectations for gynecological and breast cancer care, Sledge unravels the taken-for-granted alignment of bodies and gender that provide the foundation of medical care in the United States"--
1978815824 9781978815803 (electronic bk.) 1978815808 (electronic bk.) 9781978815827 (electronic bk.)
Breast--Cancer--Psychology.
Gender identity.
Social perception.
Breast Neoplasms--psychology
Breast Neoplasms, Male--psychology
Transgender Persons
Gender Identity
Social Perception
Sein--Cancer--Psychologie.
Identité sexuelle.
Perception sociale.
sex role.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
RC280 / .S54 2021
616.99/449
WP 870