Download or read book Pink Ribbon Blues written by Gayle A. Sulik and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the hidden costs of the pink ribbon as an industry and analyzes the social impact on women living with breast cancer -- the stereotypes and the stigmas.
Download or read book Pink Ribbons Inc written by Samantha King and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The commercialization of the breast cancer movement is challenged in this analysis of how breast cancer has been transformed from a stigmatized disease and individual tragedy to a market-driven industry of survivorship.
Download or read book Radical written by Kate Pickert and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate Pickert worked as a health-care journalist and knew medical treatment well, but it all changed when she was diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer at age 35. Pickert used her journalistic skills to identify the cultural, scientific, and historical forces shaping the lives of breast-cancer patients in the modern age.
Download or read book Kimiko Does Cancer written by and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A book with many images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.
Download or read book The Undying written by Anne Boyer and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION "The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms 'the ideological regime of cancer,' Anne Boyer has produced a profound and unforgettable document on the experience of life itself." —Sally Rooney, author of Normal People "Anne Boyer’s radically unsentimental account of cancer and the 'carcinogenosphere' obliterates cliche. By demonstrating how her utterly specific experience is also irreducibly social, she opens up new spaces for thinking and feeling together. The Undying is an outraged, beautiful, and brilliant work of embodied critique." —Ben Lerner, author of The Topeka School A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living paycheck to paycheck who had always been the caregiver rather than the one needing care, the catastrophic illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. A twenty-first-century Illness as Metaphor, as well as a harrowing memoir of survival, The Undying explores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens, weaving in ancient Roman dream diarists, cancer hoaxers and fetishists, cancer vloggers, corporate lies, John Donne, pro-pain ”dolorists,” the ecological costs of chemotherapy, and the many little murders of capitalism. It excoriates the pharmaceutical industry and the bland hypocrisies of ”pink ribbon culture” while also diving into the long literary line of women writing about their own illnesses and ongoing deaths: Audre Lorde, Kathy Acker, Susan Sontag, and others. A genre-bending memoir in the tradition of The Argonauts, The Undying will break your heart, make you angry enough to spit, and show you contemporary America as a thing both desperately ill and occasionally, perversely glorious. Includes black-and-white illustrations
Download or read book Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy written by Geralyn Lucas and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A bold memoir” of one young woman’s courageous battle with breast cancer—the basis for the Emmy-nominated Lifetime movie starring Sarah Chalke (People). Having recently graduated from Columbia Journalism School and landed her dream job at 20/20, the last thing twenty-seven-year-old Geralyn expects to hear is a breast cancer diagnosis. And there is one part of the diagnosis that no one will discuss with her: what it means to be a young woman with cancer in a beauty-obsessed culture. Trying to find herself while losing her vibrancy and her looks, Geralyn embarks on a road of self-acceptance that will inspire all women. Although her story is explicitly about a period of time when she was driven by fear and uncertainty, Geralyn managed a transformation that will encourage all women under siege to discover their own courage and beauty. The important and outrageous lessons of Why I Wore Lipstick come fast and furious with the same gusto that Geralyn has learned to bring to every aspect of her life.
Download or read book Manmade Breast Cancers written by Zillah R. Eisenstein and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breast cancer survivor shares her own family history with breast cancer, providing a feminist assessment of the causes, politics, and economics of breast cancer. Explored are such factors as carcinogens and the environment, racial components, domination of the medical field by corporate interests, the issue of breast reconstruction, and other topics. c. Book News Inc.
Download or read book Boundless Blessings and God s Grace written by Cynthia J. Eggl and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People Cynthia encountered on her breast cancer journey profoundly changed her perspective on life. They were varied ages and came from different circumstances, but the common thread they had was the fear when hearing the word cancer. Often she was a reluctant participant during her walk, knowing she had no choice if she intended to win her battle. She encouraged others with her smile, positive attitude, words, and actions. Cynthia understands that within each of us is a fighting spirit, and hopefully, a recognition that we are not in total control of our lives; God is, and he will determine our passage from this world. Until then, we need to accept the difficulties that we encounter in our lives with dignity, grace, determination, and knowing that God is constantly by our side. With the incredible support and prayers of an army of compassionate people, and Gods grace and blessings, Cynthia is a breast cancer survivor today!
Download or read book The Shift written by Theresa Brown and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practicing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites us to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day on a busy teaching hospital’s cancer ward. In the span of twelve hours, lives can be lost, life-altering treatment decisions made, and dreams fulfilled or irrevocably stolen. Unfolding in real time--under the watchful eyes of this dedicated professional and insightful chronicler of events--The Shift gives an unprecedented view into the individual struggles as well as the larger truths about medicine in this country. By shift’s end, we have witnessed something profound about hope and humanity.
Download or read book Ticking Off Breast Cancer written by Sara Liyanage and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sara is a married forty-something mother of two and part-time lawyer in London, Sara managed her life by to-do list after to-do list. However, when breast cancer appeared on her list, Sara's life as she previously knew it, was thrown upside down. Ticking Off Breast Cancer is a chronological narrative of Sara's life from the day of her diagnosis and throughout treatment. It follows her as she deals with the physical, emotional and mental challenges thrown at her by cancer and provides an honest insight into the treatment given to a breast cancer patient together with the impact that this has on someone's life. By sharing many of her to-do lists in the form of checklists at the end of each chapter, Ticking Off Breast Cancer provides thoughtful, helpful advice for every step of the way.
Download or read book All You Could Ask For written by Mike Greenberg and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Mike is as clever, astute, and perceptive as he is brilliant. He has beautifully pulled off the three female voices in this novel...with tremendous wisdom and insight.” — Jane Green, New York Times-bestselling author A tender and insightful story of friendship and love, heartbreak and renewal, played out in the lives of three unforgettable women, from the cohost of ESPN's Mike and Mike in the Morning. Brooke has been happily married to her college sweetheart for fifteen years. Even after the C-section, the dog poop, the stomach viruses and the coffee breath, Scott always winks at her in just the right moments. That is why, for her beloved, romantic, successful husband’s fortieth birthday, she is giving him pictures. Of herself. Naked. Newlywed Samantha learns of her husband’s cheating heart when she finds the goods on his computer. High-powered career woman Katherine works with heartbreaker Phillip, the man who hurt her early on in her career. Brooke, Samantha, and Katherine don’t know each other, but their stories are about to intertwine in ways no one could have imagined. And all three are about to discover the power of friendship to conquer adversity, the satisfaction of unexpected delights, the incredible difference one human being can have on other lives—and that they have all they could ask for, as long as they have each other.
Download or read book The Cancer Journals written by Audre Lorde and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1980, Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals offers a profoundly feminist analysis of her experience with breast cancer & a modified radical mastectomy. Moving between journal entry, memoir, & exposition, Lorde fuses the personal & political & refuses the silencing & invisibility that she experienced both as a woman facing her own death & as a woman coping with the loss of her breast. After Lorde died of cancer in 1992, women from all over the U.S. & beyond paid tribute to her in essays & poems. Aunt Lute's special hardcover edition of The Cancer Journals gathers together twelve such tributes as well as a series of six photographs taken of Lorde by photographer Jean Weisinger. Tributes by: Margaret E. Cronin, Linda Cue, Elliot, Ayofemi Folayan, Jewelle Gomez, Margaret Randall, Adrienne Rich, Kate Rushin, Elizabeth Sargent, Ann Allen Shockley, Barbara Smith, & Evelyn White.
Download or read book Hiding Politics in Plain Sight written by Patricia Strach and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiding Politics in Plain Sight examines the costs of market mechanisms, especially cause marketing, as a strategy for change. Industry and corporate-connected individuals use market mechanisms to brand issues like breast cancer widely, shaping public understanding. But framed as consensus-based social issues rather than contentious political issues, they essentially hide politics in plain sight.
Download or read book My Mommy Has Breast Cancer But She is Okay written by Kerri M. Conner and published by XYLOPHONE Press. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kerri is the daughter of a breast cancer survivor, but she writes this book based upon her own battle with breast cancer. Kerri was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer at age thirty-three. Her daughter was only two at the time. Kerri hopes this book will inspire young mothers with breast cancer as well as their young children.
Download or read book Not in the Pink written by Tina Martel and published by Self Publisher. This book was released on 2014 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Breast Cancer Be Attitudes written by Sylvia Morgan Baker and published by Carepoint Ministry, Incorporated. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Sylvia Baker's graceful book shows readers how to truly embrace God's thoughts in the midst of a life-threatening challenge. Charmingly illustrated and humorous, this unique book shares her remarkable story interspersed with: * Faith-thoughts, prayers, scripture, and poetry * Recipes that enabled the author to eat her way through chemotherapy * Tips from two RNs, a naturopathic doctor, a massage therapist, and a Christian Counselor * Special segments by experts in research and medicine: o Chris Wright, PhD, a toxicology researcher, on hormone therapy o Naji Haroun, MD, an internist, on chemotherapy o Melita Braganza, MBBS, DCH, a medical researcher at the University of Maryland Hospital and the VA Medical Center, on radiation therapy * The 7 Breast Cancer Be-Attitudes!
Download or read book Pretty in Pink written by Crystal Harper and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-09-29 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is with great pleasure that I am able to do this pictorial book of my own personal breast cancer journey in hoping that it may be able to bring about enlightenment, encouragement, faith and hope for those and their loved ones whom may be currently going through their own cancer journey. These experiences have helped me to be a lot stronger in other areas of my life and I would like to encourage others through their journey by being able to share mine. I’ve also included some photos of my journey in this book.
