Ch 10: What to Let Go: Insights from Online Cervical Cancer Narratives
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Description
This chapter appears in the book, Letting Go: Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism. Edited by Donna King and Catherine G. Valentine.
Chapter abstract: Cervical cancer taxes the entire embodied self. Women with cervical cancer bear tremendous bodily pain from the disease and its treatments. We confront insidious social stigmas against people with sexually transmitted viruses. In the United States, even if we are lucky enough to have adequate health insurance, we must navigate maddening health care bureaucracies. We negotiate power relationships with our biomedical providers as we seek to make informed decisions about our health care. We hope and pray to stave off mortality, at least for the moment. For as long as we “survive” we live with physical reminders of the illness.
ISBN
9780826520661
Publication Date
2015
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
City
Nashville
Keywords
Cervical cancer, Stigma, Relationships, Narratives
Disciplines
Gender and Sexuality | Other Mental and Social Health | Politics and Social Change
Recommended Citation
Citeroni, Tracy B., "Ch 10: What to Let Go: Insights from Online Cervical Cancer Narratives" (2015). Books and Chapters. 20.
https://scholar.umw.edu/hist_amst_books/20