TY - JOUR
T1 - In memory : women's experiences of (dangerous) breasts
AU - Gannon, Susanne
AU - Mueller-Rockstroh, Babette
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - Women's embodied memories of "Dangerous Breasts ", generated as part of a wider collective memory project on women's breasts, (1) construct women as always at risk of our bodies turning against us. We trace through memory stories how we inscribe our bodies as "dangerous" through practices involving silence, fear, surveillance and diagnosis. We examine how regimes directed at the prevention and treatment of breast cancer serve, in our memories, to increase anxiety and distance us from our bodies and any sense of agency.
AB - Women's embodied memories of "Dangerous Breasts ", generated as part of a wider collective memory project on women's breasts, (1) construct women as always at risk of our bodies turning against us. We trace through memory stories how we inscribe our bodies as "dangerous" through practices involving silence, fear, surveillance and diagnosis. We examine how regimes directed at the prevention and treatment of breast cancer serve, in our memories, to increase anxiety and distance us from our bodies and any sense of agency.
KW - breasts
KW - feminism
KW - self-perception
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/34462
M3 - Article
SN - 1077-1999
JO - Philosophy in the Contemporary World
JF - Philosophy in the Contemporary World
ER -