Ch6. Beauty, Breasts, and Meaning after Mastectomy
Piper Sledge is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Bryn Mawr College. Her research and teaching interests include gender, race, and embodiment. Dr. Sledge’s first book, Bodies Unbound: Gender-Specific Cancer and Biolegitimacy (Rutgers University Press, 2021) is a comparative study showing how ideologies of gendered bodies shape medical care and how patients respond to these ideologies through decisions about their bodies using three cases: transgender men seeking preventative gynecological care, cisgender men diagnosed with breast cancer, and cisgender women with breast cancer who elect to undergo prophylactic mastectomies. Her current book project explores the relationship between trans* and mixed-race embodied experiences as one imbued with the radical potential to help us better understand how racial and gender ideologies are reproduced, resisted, and reimagined.
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