TY - BOOK AU - Klawiter,Maren TI - The biopolitics of breast cancer: changing cultures of disease and activism SN - 9780816651078 AV - RC280 K63 B 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - Minneapolis PB - University of Minnesota Press KW - Breast KW - Cancer KW - Political aspects KW - United States KW - Biopolitics KW - Breast Neoplasms KW - Cultural Characteristics KW - Feminism KW - Politics N1 - Introduction : Mapping the contours of breast cancer -- Social movements without the sovereign -- Breast cancer in two regimes -- The regime of medicalization -- Biomedicalization and the biopolitics of screening -- Biomedicalization and the anatomo-politics of treatment -- Cultures of action in the Bay Area -- Early detection and screening activism -- Patient empowerment and feminist treatment activism -- Cancer prevention and environmental risk -- From private stigma to public actions -- The impact of disease regimes and social movements on illness experience -- Breast cancer in the twenty-first century -- Conclusion : The body politics of social movements -- Appendix : Multisited ethnography and the extended case method; HKBU library; YT2025 M09 ER -