Breast cancer, breast surgery, and the makeover metaphor

Social Semiotics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 83-101

  Cobb, Shelley ^a   Starr, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Cancer Care Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

breast cancer; breast surgery; makeover; reconstruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858596154     PISSN: 10350330     EISSN: 14701219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10350330.2012.640526     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Adams, J. 2010. Motivational narratives of assessments of the body after cosmetic surgery. Qualitative Health Research, 20(6): 755-67.
2. Blum, V.L. 2003. Flesh wounds: The culture of cosmetic surgery, Berkeley: California University Press.
3. Breast Cancer.Org. 2011. Breast cancer statistics, modified January 21.http://www.breastcancer.org/symptoms/understand_bc/statistics.jsp.
4. Chan, L.K., MBBS, FRCSEd. 2010. Body image and the breast: The psychological wound. Journal of Wound Care 19, no. 4: 133-8.
5. Crompvoets, S. 2006. Comfort, control, or conformity: Women who choose breast reconstruction following mastectomy. Health Care for Women International, 27(1): 75-93.
6. Detsi-Diamanti, Z., Kisti-Mitakou, K. and Yiannopoulou, E. 2009. The future of flesh: A cultural survey of the body, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
7. Ehrenreich, B. 2001. Welcome to Cancerland, Harper's Magazine, November, 43-53.
8. Ehrenreich, B. 2010. Bright-sided: How positive thinking is undermining America, New York: Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
9. Fallbjörk, U., Karlsson, S., Salander, P. and Rasmussen, B.H. 2010. Differences between women who have and have not undergone breast reconstruction after mastectomy due to breast cancer. Acta Oncologica, 49(2): 174-9.
10. Fraser, S. 2003. The agent within: Agency repertoires in medical discourse on cosmetic surgery. Australian Feminist Studies, 18(40): 27-44.
11. Gilbert, C. 2004. Breast reconstruction less likely for black women. Journal of the National Medical Association, 96(10): 1266
12. Gimlin, D. 2002. Body work: Beauty and self-image in American culture, Berkeley: University of California Press.
13. King, S. 2008. Pink ribbons, Inc, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
14. Klawiter, M. 2008. The biopolitics of breast cancer: Changing cultures of disease and activism, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
15. Longhurst, R. 2001. "Breaking corporeal boundaries: Pregnant bodies in public spaces". In Contested Bodies, Edited by: Holliday, R. and Hassard, J. 81-94. London: Routledge.
16. McRobbie, A. 2009. The aftermath of feminism: Gender, culture and social change, London: Sage Publications.
17. Price Herndl, D. 2002. "Reconstructing the posthuman feminist body twenty years after Audre Lorde's Cancer Journals". In Disability studies: Enabling the humanities, Edited by: Synder, S., Brueggemann, B.J. and Garland-Thomspon, R. New York: Modern Language Association of America Press.
18. Roberts, M. 2007. "The fashion police: Governing the self in what not to wear". In Interrogating postfeminism: Gender and the politics of popular culture, Edited by: Tasker, Y. and Nega, D. 227-248. Durham: Duke University Press.
19. Rose, N. 1998. Inventing our selves: Psychology, power, and personhood, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
20. Rowland, J.H., Desmond, K.A., Meyerowitz, B.E., Belin, T.R., Wyatt, G.E. and Ganz, P.A. 2000. Role of breast reconstructive surgery in physical and emotional outcomes among breast cancer survivors. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 92(17): 1422-9.
21. Sontag, S. 1979. Illness and its metaphors and AIDS and its metaphors, London: Penguin Books.
22. Stone, C.A. 2000. Can a picture really paint a thousand words?. Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, 24: 185-91.
23. Tasker, Y. and Negra, D. 2007. Interrogating postfeminism: Gender and the politics of popular culture, London: Duke University Press.
24. Wearing, S. 2007. "Subjects of rejuvenation: Aging in postfeminist culture". In Interrogating postfeminism: Gender and the politics of popular culture, Edited by: Tasker, Y. and Nega, D. Durham: Duke University Press.
25. Yalom, M. 1997. A history of the breast, London: HaperCollins Publishers.
26. Young, I.M. 2005. Throwing like a girl and other essays, New York: Oxford University Press.