in regards to breast cancer, a metaphor that could negatively represent it in the eyes of misogyny is that it results from woman's refusal to engage sexually after a certain age, or that it would represent repressed sexual frustration due to being a full time mother or not engaging enough sexually, or that a person is infestile and thus the body is fighting itself. it might seem just misogynistic but those are very common arguments of people reacting to breast cancer as being the one of the very few cases in which the disease is fought against and healed from
A wonderful overview of the book! I am researching on AIDS history and Sontag's work made me think a lot. :)
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in regards to breast cancer, a metaphor that could negatively represent it in the eyes of misogyny is that it results from woman's refusal to engage sexually after a certain age, or that it would represent repressed sexual frustration due to being a full time mother or not engaging enough sexually, or that a person is infestile and thus the body is fighting itself. it might seem just misogynistic but those are very common arguments of people reacting to breast cancer as being the one of the very few cases in which the disease is fought against and healed from