%0 Journal Article
%T The Gendering of Cancer Survivorship
%A D Skinner
%J Health, Culture and Society
%D 2012
%I University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
%R 10.5195/hcs.2012.83
%X This article examines the relationship between gender and cancer survivorship. I argue that gender is as critical as a category of analysis for understanding cancer survivorship as it is missing from survivorship studies, particularly as concerns the identificatory basis of survivor culture and clinical studies regarding survivors¡¯ quality of life (QOL). This under-studied question of the gendering of survivorship is critical because the consequences of the social production of disease is far-reaching, from the nature of medical research to social awareness, to funding to the well-being of cancer survivors themselves.
%U http://hcs.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/hcs/article/view/83