The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation.(Book Review)

From: Resources for Feminist Research | Date: September 22, 2004| Author: Patterson, Pam | Copyright information

THE SUMMER OF HER BALDNESS: A Cancer Improvisation

Catherine Lord Austin: University of Texas, 2004; 248 pp.

In The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation, Catherine Lord conflates existing notions of cancer as horrific disease and cancer patients as lone fighters in a way that re-energizes and yet problematizes them. She exposes the raw underbelly of the disease and its treatment in/through an online persona, the irascible, brutally honest, intelligen...

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