Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development
by:
Vandana Shiva (author)
Janet Reibstein's mother and two aunts grew up in New Jersey amid a close-knit, extended Jewish family set apart only by a genetic propensity for breast cancer. Over fifty years, the disease claims Janet's two aunts, then her mother, then a cousin. Finally Janet must face the far-reaching...
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Janet Reibstein's mother and two aunts grew up in New Jersey amid a close-knit, extended Jewish family set apart only by a genetic propensity for breast cancer. Over fifty years, the disease claims Janet's two aunts, then her mother, then a cousin. Finally Janet must face the far-reaching decision of whether to undergo a preemptive mastectomy herself. A history of the disease in America as well as a story of sisters, mothers and daughters, and the men who love them, Staying Alive is ultimately a tale of extraordinary strength and of the power of love in survival.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780862328238 (0862328233)
Publish date: January 15th 1989
Publisher: Zed Books
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Environment,
Biology,
Ecology,
Economics,
Feminism,
Politics,
Womens,
Gender,
Gender Studies,
Social Movements,
Social Justice
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