Statistically, family history explains less than 12% of all breast cancers.
maggie coleman
Michael Pugliese wrote:
> MANMADE BREAST CANCERS
>
> Zillah Eisenstein
>
> A new understanding of humanity and feminism from the starting point of
> breast health is the ultimate goal of Zillah Eisenstein�s political memoir
> of her family�s experience with breast cancer. The well-known feminist
> author argues that politics always needs the personal, and that the personal
> is never enough on its own. Her return to the personal side of the political
> combines the two for a radicalized way of seeing, viewing, and knowing.
>
> The author strives to bring together a critique of environmental damage and
> the health of women�s bodies, gain perspective on the role race plays as a
> factor in breast cancers and in political agendas, link prevention and
> treatment, and connect individual support and political change.
>
> Eisenstein was sixteen when her forty-five-year-old mother successfully
> battled breast cancer. Her two sisters, Sarah and Giah, were in their
> twenties when they were diagnosed, but neither of them survived. She
> received her own diagnosis when she was forty.
>
> Despite her family history, however, Eisenstein rejects the simple argument
> that genes are simply determining, rather than liable to influence by
> external factors. She also questions the dominance of the theory that breast
> cancer is caused by high lifetime exposure to estrogen. Instead, she views
> breast cancer as an environmental disease, best understood in terms of
> ecological, racial, economic, and sexual influences on individual women. She
> uses the term �manmade� to indicate not only industrial carcinogens and
> other cultural causes, but also the male-dominated and -defined scientific
> practices of research and treatment.
>
> In response, Manmade Breast Cancers offers a retelling of the meaning of
> breast cancer and a discussion of universal feminist issues about the body.
> The author says she writes �to discover a more just globe which will
> treasure the health of all of our bodies.� The emotional depth and
> intellectual breadth of her argument adds new dimensions to how we
> understand breast cancer.
>
> Zillah Eisenstein is Professor of Politics at Ithaca College. Among her
> other books are Global Obscenities; Hatreds: Racialized and Sexualized
> Conflicts in the 21st Century; and The Color of Gender: Reimaging Democracy.
>
> WORLD World rights
> Health and Fitness|Feminist Theory|Politics More about this Title
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Margaret Coleman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 7:38 PM
> Subject: [PEN-L:12687] Re: Insecticides
>
> > It now seems that insecticides are probably at least partly to blame for
> the
> > breast cancer epidemic in the USA. Israel is the only industrial country
> in
> > the world with a reducing rate of breast cancer -- and they banned
> pesticides
> > in agriculture years ago. Now if they could only stop killing the
> > palestinians.... maggie coleman
> >
> > Louis Proyect wrote:
> >
> > > Ratio of the amount of insecticides used in the U.S. in 1945 to the
> amount
> > > used last year: 1:10
> > >
> > > Estimated percentage of U.S. pre-harvest crops lost to insects in 1945
> and
> > > last year, respectively: 7,13
> > >
> > > (Harper's Index, June 2001)
> > >
> > > Louis Proyect
> > > Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org/
> >
> >
