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Breast Cancer: Feminism, Representations and Resistance – a Commentary on Dorothy Broom’s ‘Reading Breast Cancer’

Loughborough University, UKS.Wilkinson{at}lboro.ac.uk

In this commentary, I identify two sets of coercive ‘discourses and practices’ which typically oppress women with breast cancer: the imperative of concealment and the notion of personal blame and responsibility for their illness. I examine how a feminist analysis can support and encourage resistance to such coercive ‘discourses and practices’, and I argue for a thoroughgoing feminist approach to breast cancer more generally.

Key Words: breast cancer • concealment • discourses and practices • feminism • thinking positive

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