Prosthetic fantasies: Loss, recovery, and the marketing of wholeness after breast cancer

Social Semiotics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 107-120

  Crompvoets, Samantha ^a  

^a The Australian National University   (Australia)

Author keywords

breast cancer recovery; gender; mastectomy; performance; prosthesis; self

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858594253     PISSN: 10350330     EISSN: 14701219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10350330.2012.640058     Document Type: Article

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