Visibility of the ovaries and breasts: an analysis of Angelina Jolie's medical announcements

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Visibility of the ovaries and breasts: an analysis of Angelina Jolie's medical announcements

Tetteh, Dinah A.

Feminist media studies, 07/2019, Volume: 19, Issue: 5

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Advanced epithelial ovarian cancer is the deadliest gynecologic cancer; yet public knowledge about the disease is limited. This essay critically examines the limited visibility of ovarian cancer using Angelina Jolie's medical announcements in 2013 and 2015 as examples. The essay also examines how Jolie's case reinforces and also challenges hegemonic notions of femininity, the woman's body and health, and how it explicates limitations in discourses of choice and risk. I argue that normative views about the female body play significant roles in shaping how and what we know about women's health.

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