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" The vulnerable empowered woman : "
Tasha N. Dubriwny.
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846131
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Dubriwny, Tasha N.,1976-
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The vulnerable empowered woman : : feminism, postfeminism, and women's health /\ Tasha N. Dubriwny.
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| Publication Statement
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :: Rutgers University Press,, [2013]
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, ©2013
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Critical issues in health and medicine
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1 online resource (248 pages).
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0813554020
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: 1283684020
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0813554004
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0813554012
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9780813554006
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9780813554013
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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Introduction : public discourse and the representation of the vulnerable empowered woman -- Theorizing postfeminist health -- Genetic risk : prophylactic mastectomies and the pursuit of cancer-free life -- Postfeminist risky mothers and postpartum depression -- The postfeminist concession : young women, sex, and paternalism -- Feminist women's health activism in the twenty-first century -- Afterword : from margin to center.
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The Vulnerable Empowered Woman assesses the state of women's healthcare today by analyzing popular media representations-television, print newspapers, websites, advertisements, blogs, and memoirs-in order to understand the ways in which breast cancer, postpartum depression, and cervical cancer are discussed in American public life. Tasha N. Dubriwny's analysis concludes with a call to re-politicize women's health through narratives that can help us imagine women, and their relationship to medi.
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Breast-- Cancer.
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Cervix uteri-- Cancer-- Vaccination.
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Mastectomy.
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Postpartum depression.
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Women-- Health and hygiene.
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Breast-- Cancer.
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HEALTH FITNESS-- Women's Health.
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Mastectomy.
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Postpartum depression.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Gender Studies.
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Women-- Health and hygiene.
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Women's Health.
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Depression, Postpartum.
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Feminism.
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Mastectomy.
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Papillomavirus Vaccines.
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| Dewey Classification
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613/.04244
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| LC Classification
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RA778
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WA 309.1
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| Parallel Title
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Feminism, postfeminism, and women's health
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