Cover Image

The vulnerable empowered woman : feminism, postfeminism, and women's health /

Show other versions (1)

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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dubriwny, Tasha N., 1976- (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
Series:Critical issues in health and medicine.
Subjects:
Women > Health and hygiene.
Breast > Cancer.
Mastectomy.
Postpartum depression.
Cervix uteri > Cancer > Vaccination.
Women's Health.
Feminism.
Depression, Postpartum.
Papillomavirus Vaccines.
Ebooks.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.