Our Breasts, Our Selves: Identity, Community, and Ethics in Cancer Autobiographies

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Previous articleNext article No AccessOur Breasts, Our Selves: Identity, Community, and Ethics in Cancer AutobiographiesDiane Price HerndlDiane Price HerndlDepartments of English and Women’s StudiesIowa State University Search for more articles by this author Departments of English and Women’s StudiesIowa State UniversityPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 32, Number 1Autumn 2006 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/505542 Views: 247Total views on this site Citations: 12Citations are reported from Crossref © 2006 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Jiena Sun I, We and All of Us: Transcending the Individualistic “I” in Three Chinese Breast Cancer Narratives, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 62, no.22 (Jul 2020): 200–210.https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2020.1790487Mary Godfrey, Sarah Price, Andrew Long Unveiling the Maelstrom of the Early Breast Cancer Trajectory, Qualitative Health Research 28, no.44 (Dec 2017): 572–586.https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732317746378Judy Z. Segal The View from Here and There: Objectivity and the Rhetoric of Breast Cancer, (Jan 2015): 211–226.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14349-1_11Alexandra Farren Gibson, Christina Lee, Shona Crabb ‘ If you grow them, know them ’: Discursive constructions of the pink ribbon culture of breast cancer in the Australian context, Feminism & Psychology 24, no.44 (Nov 2014): 521–541.https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353514548100Marjolein de Boer, Jenny Slatman Blogging and breast cancer: Narrating one's life, body and self on the Internet, Women's Studies International Forum 44 (May 2014): 17–25.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2014.02.014Judy Z. Segal The Sexualization of the Medical, Journal of Sex Research 49, no.44 (Jul 2012): 369–378.https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2011.653608Carsten Timmermann, Elizabeth Toon Introduction, (Jan 2012): 1–9.https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137272089_1Joanna Baines Three Stories: Generations of Breast Cancer, (Jan 2012): 13–35.https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137272089_2Maheshvari Naidu Performing illness and health: the humanistic value of cancer narratives, Anthropology Southern Africa 35, no.3-43-4 (Sep 2015): 71–80.https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2012.11500026Lisa R. Rubin, Molly Tanenbaum “Does That Make Me A Woman?”, Psychology of Women Quarterly 35, no.33 (Sep 2011): 401–414.https://doi.org/10.1177/0361684310395606Susan Van Den Tillaart, Donna Kurtz, Penny Cash Powerlessness, marginalized identity, and silencing of health concerns: Voiced realities of women living with a mental health diagnosis, International Journal of Mental Health Nursing 18, no.33 (Jun 2009): 153–163.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1447-0349.2009.00599.xJudy Z. Segal Breast Cancer Narratives as Public Rhetoric: Genre Itself and the Maintenance of Igorance, Linguistics and the Human Sciences 3, no.11 (Jun 2008).https://doi.org/10.1558/lhs.v3i1.3