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Cancer Butch
Article first published online: 7 JAN 2008
DOI: 10.1525/can.2007.22.4.501
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JAIN, S. L. (2007), Cancer Butch. Cultural Anthropology, 22: 501–538. doi: 10.1525/can.2007.22.4.501
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- Issue published online: 7 JAN 2008
- Article first published online: 7 JAN 2008
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Keywords:
- medical anthropology;
- queer;
- cancer;
- sentimentality;
- gender;
- illness;
- body image;
- photography
The academic literature still tends to take Audre Lorde as the primary feminist theorist of breast cancer, and her The Cancer Journals (1997) remains, nearly three decades out, the definitive word on breast cancer and gender theory. In this article, I revisit the cultures and politics of cancer, offering a queer analysis of breast cancer in the U.S.