Reconstruction and Healing：A Narrative Analysis of Female Breast Cancer Patient's Life Writing
| Autor: | Kai-Han Chang, 張凱涵 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 102 In recent years, the chance of getting breast cancer has grown rapidly. Breast cancer has become every woman''s nightmare. Mastectomy (a medical term for the surgery to remove one or both breasts) is one of the usual treatments for breast cancer. It not only causes physical pain but also confuses female identity. The purpose of the study was to explore the situation of women with breast cancer in society, and how to reconstruct identity by their life writing. In the study, we chose the life writing of breast cancer patients as a research text, and take narrative analysis as a research framework. At last, we take feminism as well as narrative therapy as our research perspective. The study found that the breast cancer patients often presented positive image in their book, and they‘re a fighter to defend their body autonomy. Although they suffered from cancer, they understood the meaning of life. When they face patriarchal oppression, they take a flexible approach to resist. Most of breast cancer patients build self-identity from their new body, no matter whether they take a surgery of breast reconstruction or not. |
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