Fractured borders : reading women's cancer literature - DeShazer, Mary K. (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2005)
"The night-side of life" : analyzing cancer literature from feminist perspectives -- "Skinnied on the left side like a girl" : embodying cancer on the feminist stage -- Entering "The house of lightning" : resistance and transformation in U.S. women's breast cancer poetry -- Dying into the lite : popular fiction, cancer, and the romance of women's relationships -- "Floating out on a yacht called Eros" : memory, desire, and death in women's experimental cancer fiction -- "Entering cancerland" : self-representation, commonality, and culpability in women's autobiographical narratives.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-290) and index.
Table of contents at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0514/2005016627.html
Mode of access: Internet.
Keywords: Neoplasms; Women's Health; Autobiography; Cancer in women -- Historiography; Women and literature -- United States; Cancer patients' writings, American -- History and criticism; Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism; Cancer in literature; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism