Cancer Activism Gender, Media, and Public Policy

Name: Cancer Activism Gender, Media, and Public Policy
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ISBN: 9780252031984

ISBN-10: 0252031989

ISBN-13: 9780252031984

Edition: 2007

Authors: Karen M. Kedrowski, Marilyn Stine Sarow

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Cancer Activism explores the interplay between advocacy, the media, and public perception through an analysis of breast cancer and prostate cancer activist groups over a nearly 20-year period. Despite both diseases having nearly identical mortality and morbidity rates, Karen M. Kedrowski and Marilyn Stine Sarow present evidence from more than 4,200 news articles to show that the different groups have had markedly different impacts. They trace the rise of each movement from its beginning and explore how discussions about the diseases appeared on media, public, and government agendas. In an important exception to the feminist tenet that women as a group hold less power than men, Kedrowski and…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 5/29/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Tables


Figures


Prologue


Chronology


Introduction



Two Activist Movements Emerge



A Typology of Grassroots Survivors' Organizations



Breast Cancer and Prostate Cancer in the Media



The Public Face of Cancer: Breast Cancer and Prostate Cancer in the Media and Public Perceptions of Risk



Media Advocacy Evidence



Two Cancers Go to Congress: Media Advocacy and the Policy Agenda



Agenda Maintenance: The Politics of Issue Definition and Framing



Ribbon Wars: Cause-related Marketing and the Selling of Breast Cancer and Prostate Cancer



Policy Dilemmas and Maturing Movements


Acknowledgments


Methodological Appendix


Notes


References


Index