Foreword' Dr S.Love INTRODUCTION Living with Breast Cancer; S.J.Ferguson & A.S.Kasper PART I: BREAST CANCER: THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT Inventing a Curable Disease: Historical Perspectives on Breast Cancer; B.H.Lerner Deformities and Diseased: The Medicalization of Women's Breasts; S.J.Ferguson PART II: BREAST CANCER AS A SOCIAL PROBLEM A. The Economics of Breast Cancer Breast Cancer and the Evolving Health Care System; ER.Shaffer Profits from Pain: The Political Economy of Breast Cancer; J.S.Zones B. Women, Their Bodies, and the Illness Experience Women's Experience of Breast Cancer; M.E.Rosenbaum & G.M Roos Barriers and Burdens: Poor Women Face Breast Cancer; A.S.Kasper C. The Politics of Breast Cancer Breast Cancer Policymaking; C.SWeisman Controversies in Breast Cancer Research; S.V.Rosser The Environmental Link to Breast Cancer; S.Steingraber PART III: BREAST CANCER AND SOCIAL CHANGE Breast Cancer in Popular Women's Magazines from 1913-1996; J.R.Fosket, C.LaFie & A.Karran Sister Support: Women Create a Breast Cancer Movement; B.A. Brenner CONCLUSION Eliminating Breast Cancer from Our Future; A.S.Kasper & S.J.Ferguson

"A refreshing addition to the literature of breast cancer, this book contends that it is societal change as much as anything that will lead to better treatment and prevention of breast cancer" - Publishers Weekly "This is not the first book to bring a feminist, social analysis to the issue of breast cancer and the activism it has inspired. It is, however, one of the best..." - Women's Review of Books "...a trenchant analysis of the social, economic, and political dimensions of breast cancer..." - New England Journal of Medicine ...a very good book... writing is accessible, individual chapters are clear and pointed, and the book succeeds... -Contemporary Sociology

ANNE S. KASPER is Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Illinois at Chicago.SUSAN J. FERGUSON is Associate Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College.