eBook - ePub

Bodies Unbound

Name: Bodies Unbound
ISBN: 9781978815803

Gender-Specific Cancer and Biolegitimacy

Piper Sledge,

186 pages
English
ePUB (mobile friendly)
Available on iOS & Android

eBook - ePub

Bodies Unbound

Gender-Specific Cancer and Biolegitimacy

Piper Sledge,

About this book

Bodies Unbound is a comparative study showing how ideologies of gendered bodies shape medical care and the ways in which patients respond to these ideologies through decisions about their bodies using three cases: transgender men seeking preventative gynecological care, cisgender men diagnosed with breast cancer, and cisgender women with breast cancer who elect to undergo prophylactic mastectomies. Bodies Unbound is a story about how the relationship between bodies and gender becomes socially intelligible as well as how medical professionals use their position of relative authority over bodies to dictate which combinations of bodies and genders are legitimate or not. Drawing on the experiences of individuals whose bodies and gender identities don't match medical and social expectations for gynecological and breast cancer care, Sledge unravels the taken-for-granted alignment of bodies and gender that provide the foundation of medical care in the United States.

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