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Lessons from the United States and Poland by Gayle Sulik (USA) and Edyta Zierkiewicz (Poland) The United States breast cancer movement helped to transform breast cancer’s social and medical landscape domestically and, in some ways, internationally. However, differences in gender identities, power relations, and the role of feminism(s) cross‐culturally also shaped breast cancer advocacy itself. . . . → Read More: Gender Power and Feminisms in Breast Cancer Advocacy 
“The Art of Risk Communication: Breast cancer screening pamphlets mislead women” by Gerd Gigerenzer, British Medical Journal. “All women and women’s organisations should tear up the pink ribbons and campaign for honest information.” Why should I have mammography? That question is regularly asked in pamphlets for screening. The answer is also regularly misleading. Women . . . → Read More: Breast cancer screening pamphlets mislead women
“Gender-Based Analysis Is Essential to Improving Women’s Health and Health Care.” By Chloe Bird and Zena Sharman, Women’s Health Issues. Although women are the majority of the population, their health and health care are at times treated as a special case or minority issue in terms of research funding and practice. Without sufficient data, attempts . . . → Read More: Gender-Based Analysis Is Essential to Improving Women’s Health and Health Care
“Assessing and Addressing Women’s Health and Health Care.” By Chloe E. Bird, Rand Health Blog. Women make up a majority of the U.S. population. Yet research policies and practices often treat women’s health and health care as special topics or minority issues. The resulting knowledge gaps hamstring efforts to improve women’s health care and outcomes . . . → Read More: Assessing and Addressing Women’s Health and Health Care
“Why we won’t be posting no makeup selfies for cancer awareness” by two women in Brighton, UK, Don’t Hold Your Tongue blog. This week hundreds of thousands of women have posted pictures of themselves with no makeup on the internet, to raise awareness of cancer and raise money for cancer charities. So far over £2million . . . → Read More: Why we won’t be posting no makeup selfies for cancer awareness 
Britain’s best-selling tabloid newspaper, The Sun launched a new campaign called “Check ‘em Tuesday” using topless models to promote breast self exam (BSE) as a way to “spot disease early.” The front page headline “Page 3 V Breast Cancer” features a topless twenty-two-year-old woman named Rosie, from Middlesex. Rosie strikes a similar pose on the . . . → Read More: Does The Sun’s Check ’em Tuesday campaign raise awareness or does it just set up a sexy breast cancer blame game?
“Infantilizing life’s troubles: One has to wonder why a campaign like Pink Shirt Day is needed,” by Pete McMartin, The Vancouver Sun. I wear pink on occasion. A button-down Oxford cloth shirt with a blue blazer. For me, it’s an edgy fashion statement, not the colour of altruism. When my wife was diagnosed with breast . . . → Read More: Infantilizing life’s troubles
“More on My Story, Why My Reconstruction is Not a “Sexy Boob Job.” By Peggy Orenstein, Peggy Orenstein Blog. “I don’t think women who choose bilateral mastectomy are cowards. But I also don’t think they are heroes. Not even Angelina Jolie. Is she really braver than someone who opted for surveillance, or to have her . . . → Read More: Why My Reconstruction is Not a “Sexy Boob Job” 
My bloggy friends have really hit some important notes about Angelina Jolie’s prophylactic bilateral mastectomies, a decision she made public in a recent editorial in the New York Times. Jackie called out those who were judging her decision. Marie wrote a good explainer about the BRCA gene and why its presence . . . → Read More: The Chatter About Jolie
“Why more women are choosing double mastectomies.” By Allison Gilbert, CNN. The number of women with early stage breast cancer who went on to remove both breasts (even though only one breast had cancer) increased by more than 150% between 1998 and 2003, according to a study presented by Dr. Kelly Hunt at the annual . . . → Read More: Why more women are choosing double mastectomies |
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