Introduction : public discourse and the representation of the vulnerable empowered woman -- Theorizing postfeminist health -- Genetic risk : prophylactic mastectomies and the pursuit of cancer-free life -- Postfeminist risky mothers and postpartum depression -- The postfeminist concession : young women, sex, and paternalism -- Feminist women's health activism in the twenty-first century -- Afterword : from margin to center
Summary
The Vulnerable Empowered Woman assesses the state of women's healthcare today by analyzing popular media representations-television, print newspapers, websites, advertisements, blogs, and memoirs-in order to understand the ways in which breast cancer, postpartum depression, and cervical cancer are discussed in American public life. Tasha N. Dubriwny's analysis concludes with a call to re-politicize women's health through narratives that can help us imagine women, and their relationship to medi
