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Out Of The Closet And Into The Legislature: Breast Cancer Stories
Barbara F. Sharf
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In living color twenty-three figures appear in photographs before and after breast cancer surgery in Show Me, a recent book in both print and online forms. The women display in stark detail lumpectomies, mastectomies, and reconstructions, along with their individual reactions to these treatments. Clearly, women have come a long way since the stigmatized silence of twenty years ago, when poet and cancer sufferer Audre Lorde urged them to "become visible to each other" in order to "translate the silence surrounding breast cancer into language and action." Her statement was considered revolutionary because, with few exceptions, women then did not . . . [Full Text of this Article] |
One-Breasted Women On The Steps Of Congress
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