Disrupting breast cancer narratives: stories of rage and repair

Cover; Contents; 1. Shifting Public Perceptions of Breast Cancer; Stories of Breast Cancer; "The Angry Breast Cancer Survivors"; Narrative Inquiry in Interdisciplinary Health Research; Normative and Disruptive Stories; Description of Chapters; 2. Feminist Counternarratives; Sharing Our Stories; Breast Cancer Narratives in Public; Feminist Narrative Bioethics, Illness Narratives, and the Medical Humanities; Breast Cancer Narrative Ethics; The Power of Counternarratives; 3. Angry Stories of Survivorship; "Welcome to Cancerland"; Feeling Angry; Challenging Happiness; Contesting Survivorship; The Cancer Journals Ordinary Life; Bad Patient; 4. Questioning Environmental Causation; Chasing the Cancer Answer; Cancer Killjoy; The Problem with Personal Responsibility; Crazy Sexy Cancer; F**k Cancer; 5. Queering Breast Cancer; "White Glasses"; Doing Elegiac Politics; The Summer of Her Baldness; Living Elegiac Politics; The L Word; Gender / Cancer Rage; 6. The Power of Narrative Repair; Revisiting Counternarratives; Enacting Resistance; Performing Patienthood; Narrative Repair; 7. Postscript: Screening Pink Ribbons, Inc.; Acknowledgments; References; Index