A new understanding of humanity and feminism from the starting point of breast health is the ultimate goal of Zillah Eisenstein's political memoir of her family's experience with breast cancer. The well-known feminist author argues that politics always needs the personal, and that the personal is never enough on its own. Her return to the personal side of the political combines the two for a radicalized way of seeing, viewing, and knowing.The author...
Eisenstein's personal narrative of the breast cancer in her life is honest and compelling, and her theoretical analysis of the factors involved in breast cancer is provacative. "Manmade Breast Cancers" opend my eyes and gave me a thorough education in both the biology and the genetics of breast cancer, and the role of the pharmacutical-medical-industrial complex in establishing dominant thought patterns about the disease...
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I just had the privalege of seeing Dr. Eisenstein lecture at an annual women's symposium at my college. Her theories about the politics of breast cancer are truly profound and present a new way of looking at a disease which affects the lives of so many women. Every woman should read this book, this is serious subject that cannot be ignored.
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