'If you grow them, know them': Discursive constructions of the pink ribbon culture of breast cancer in the Australian context
'If you grow them, know them': Discursive constructions of the pink ribbon culture of breast cancer in the Australian context
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DOI：
10.1177/0959353514548100
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发表时间：
2014-11-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Crabb, Shona
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作者：
Gibson, Alexandra Farren;Lee, Christina;Crabb, Shona
粉色丝带文化“主导了西方社会对乳腺癌的理解。我们将其描述为一种疾病文化‘，由新自由主义的话语和实践组成，构建了乳腺癌的经验。我们采用女权主义的后结构主义方法来回顾目前澳大利亚女性可获得的乳腺癌铺设材料，以检查乳腺癌是如何在这种背景下被随意构建的。此外，我们还考虑了患有乳腺癌的女性所处的位置及其对女性生活的影响。我们讨论了新自由主义关于个人责任和赋权‘和乐观’的论述，以及关注个人健康行为和生存的中心实践。这种疾病文化对女性的主体性产生了积极的制约作用。虽然女性在健康方面处于赋权的地位，但这是以自我监管和责任为代价的。支持和信息还以女性、异性恋的方式重新定位妇女，同时排除不符合狭隘文化刻板印象的妇女。
The pink ribbon culture' dominates understandings of breast cancer in Western societies. We describe this as an illness culture', consisting of neoliberal discourses and practices, which construct the breast cancer experience. We take a feminist post-structuralist approach to review current breast cancer lay materials available to women in Australia, to examine how breast cancer is discursively constructed within this context. Further, we consider how women with breast cancer are positioned and what the implications are for women's lives. We discuss neoliberal discourses of individual responsibility and empowerment' and optimism', and the central practices that focus on individual health behaviours and survivorship. This illness culture has productive and restrictive effects for women's subjectivity. Whilst women are positioned as empowered' regarding their health, this comes at the price of self-regulation and responsibility. Support and information additionally reposition women in feminine, heteronormative ways, whilst excluding women who do not fit narrow cultural stereotypes.