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Chapter 1: What Is Pink Ribbon Culture?
Chapter 2: The Development of Pink Ribbon Culture
I. The Breast Cancer Movement a. Medical Consumerism b. Aesthetics and Normalization c. Investment in a Women's Health Epidemic d. Solidarity, Fundraising, and Publicity II. Unintended Consequences
Chapter 3: Mixed Metaphors: War, Gender, and the Mass Circulation of Cancer Culture
I. The Masculine and Feminine Ethos of American Cancer Culture a. LIVESTRONG and the Masculine Ethos b. Gilda's Club and the Feminine Ethos II. Pink Femininity a. Pink Femininity in the PRC b. The She-ro
Chapter 4: Consuming Pink: Mass Media and the Conscientious Consumer
I. The Special Role of Women's Magazines II. The Breast Cancer Audience III. Branding and the Niche Market of the Socially Aware IV. Warriors in Pink V. The Breast Cancer Brand a. Fear and the Pink Menace b. Hope and Faith in Breast Cancer Awareness c. Goodness, Fundraising, and the Pink Lifestyle VI. Komen's New Logo
Chapter 5: Consuming Medicine, Selling Survivorship
I. The Breast Cancer Industry II. Disease Classification III. Medical Technology a. The Benefits of Mammography b. The Risks of Mammography c. Cost/Benefit Analysis d. Screening Programs and the Makers of the Machines IV. Big Pharma V. Industry Ties to Advocacy
Chapter 6: Optimism, Selfishness, and Guilt
I. Ruby's Story II. "Becoming" a Breast Cancer Survivor: Learning the Rules III. Feeling Rule 1: Optimism a. Incorporation of the She-ro b. Rejecting the She-ro IV. Feeling Rule 2: Selfishness a. She-roic Selfishnes (i.e., Rational Coping Strategy)
b. Selfishness as Confessional V. Feeling Rule 3: Guilt a. The Inadequate She-ro b. Embodied Social Stigma c. Family Disruption
Chapter 7: The Balancing Act
I. Taking Care of Myself II. The Balancing Act a. Setting Boundaries b. Accepting Help c. Asking for Help III. Balancing the Sisterhood IV. Final Thoughts
Chapter 8: Shades of Pink
I. The Limiting Nature of Words II. Narrating One's Illness a. Realism and Transcendent Subversion b. The Picture Outside the Frame c. The Terrible Stories
Chapter 9: Re-Thinking Pink Ribbon Culture
I. "Not Just Ribbons"
II. "Think Before You Pink"
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Paul Moreno
reviewed Pink Ribbon Blues: How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Women's Health on June 10, 2014
Pink Ribbon Blues: How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Women's Health
This book is fantastic and an essential read. We all need to think before we pink!
The easy breezy activism that asks so little of us and seems so simple and super-dooper-positive at all times can often not just be unhelpful but can often be actually making the fight for an issue WORSE. Taking it backwards and also taking all the oxygen from more worthwhile organisations. Faux activism and advocacy is everywhere, with so many diseases. It is a real problem. Following the money is always a good start at getting to the bottom of who to support and what makes sense to support.
People in an unhelpful charity may mean well but that alone isn't enough. Pink ribbons on chocolate biscuits and KFC and Pepsi and so many things associated with causing cancer just do not make sense.
If breast cancer groups are focused on early detection instead of actual prevention it should set your alarm bells ringing. The statistics in this book on how little impact early detection and all those stressful self breast exams and mammograms has had are just shocking. The number of false positives is also shocking. We need to stop supporting groups that are giving out such bad information, if nothing else. People deserve better. Women with breast cancer deserve a lot better.
Jodi Bassett, The Hummingbirds' Foundation for M.E. (HFME) and Health, Healing & Hummingbirds (HHH)
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