CfP: Critical Perspectives on the Intersection of Breast Cancer and Academic Identity Abstract
This volume invites scholars who are either navigating breast cancer treatment or have traveled this path in the past. We hope to create a space for you to share how your experiences with breast cancer have touched and transformed your teaching, research, personal, and professional connections within your communities. Through your contributions, we aim to explore these profound impacts with empathy, adopting a feminist, transnational, and intersectional approach. This is an opportunity to reflect on and articulate the deeply personal ways in which breast cancer has intertwined with your academic life and beyond, fostering a compassionate and understanding dialogue rooted in critical, qualitative, and autoethnographic traditions.The primary aim of this volume is to critically explore how narratives and personal experiences related to the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer reshape our perceptions of identity, agency, and community dynamics, particularly focusing on the existing health inequities and vulnerabilities ingrained within healthcare systems and societal structures. The goal of this volume is to examine how the discourses about and experiences of diagnosis and treatment transforms our understandings of identities, agencies, and communities with critical attention to already existing inequities and vulnerabilities within health care systems, structures, and communities.
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Please feel free to contact Dr. Wendy Anderson (University of Minnesota) and Tehmina Pirzada.