The experience and construction of changes to women's sexuality after breast cancer

Jane M. Ussher; Emilee Gilbert; Janette Perz

The experience and construction of changes to women's sexuality after breast cancer

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In order to address the limitations of both realism and constructionism, this chapter will adopt a material-discursive-intrapsychic perspective (Ussher, 2000), which acknowledges the materiality of sexual changes following breast cancer, women's intrapsychic experience of such changes within a relational context, and the influence of the discursive construction of femininity and sexuality. In this vein, we will review the available research on breast cancer and sexuality, and then examine a recently completed Australian study of sexual well-being after breast cancer as an illustrative case example.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Essential Handbook of Women's Sexuality
Editors	Donna Castañeda
Place of Publication	U.S.A.
Publisher	Praeger
Pages	171-195
Number of pages	25
ISBN (Electronic)	9780313397103
ISBN (Print)	9780313397097
Publication status	Published - 2013

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The experience and construction of changes to women's sexuality after breast cancer

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