Cancer Butch Summary

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The article Cancer Butch written by Sarah.L Jain really shows how cancer degrades women and the perspective of it looked at from how women feel degraded. In the book Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde she believes “This pressure, she thought, tended, on the one hand, to steer women away from coming to terms with the multiple losses that accompany the disease and, on the other hand, to make women feel the lack of a breast as a stigma: a sign of shame, a token of lost sexuality, and therefore an indicator of cultural worthlessness.” This depicts that cancer was not only downgrading women, but also taking a way of how they felt about themselves, with the breast as just a disgrace to their bodies. Another thing stated by Audre Lorde is, “She writes,

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