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- Title
Looking at Bodies: Insights and Inquiries about DES-Related Cancer.
- Authors
Bell, Susan E.; Apfel, Roberta J.
- Abstract
This paper considers the symbolic and material meanings about gender and sexuality surrounding women's bodies. To do so, it interprets three vignettes from an ongoing study of the experiences of women who have had vaginal and cervical cancer, as a result of their prenatal exposure to DES (diethylstilbestrol), a synthetic estrogen prescribed to pregnant women to prevent miscarriage. Each vignette represents a different social and political context. The paper demonstrates how the different contexts construct meaning, and explores the implications of this for understanding the ambivalent, complicated, shifting, and contested meanings of women's bodies.
- Subjects
DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; CANCER in women; CANCER patients; ESTROGEN; GENDER; MISCARRIAGE; WOMEN'S health
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 1995, Vol 18, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF02393193