The Vulnerable Empowered Woman: Feminism, Postfeminism, and Women's Health

Contents

v Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Public Discourse and the Representation of the Vulnerable Empowered Woman 1 Chapter 1 Theorizing Postfeminist Health: Risk and the Postfeminist Subject 13 Chapter 2 Genetic Risk: Prophylactic Mastectomies and the Pursuit of Cancer-Free Life 33 Chapter 3 Postfeminist Risky Mothers and Postpartum Depression 69 Chapter 4 The Postfeminist Concession: Young Women, Sex, and Paternalism 107 Chapter 5 Feminist Women’s Health Activism in the Twenty-first Century 143 Afterword: From Margin to Center 183 Notes 189 Bibliography 217 Index 231 Contents ...