Williamsburg Regional Library

Flat, reclaiming my body from breast cancer, Catherine Guthrie

eng

individual biography

no index present

non fiction

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1045646737

Catherine Guthrie

reclaiming my body from breast cancer

As a young, queer woman, Catherine Guthrie worked hard to feel at home in her body. However, after years writing about women's health and breast cancer, Guthrie is thrust into the role of a patient after a devastating diagnosis at age thirty-eight. This book is Guthrie's story of how two bouts of breast cancer shook her faith in her body, her relationship, and medicine. Along the way, she challenges the view that breasts are essential to femininity and paramount to a woman's happiness. She traces an intimate portrayal of how cancer reshaped her relationship with her partner in the midst of the crisis. A feminist breast cancer memoir of medical trauma, love, and how she found the strength to listen to her body.

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