TASHA N. DUBRIWNY is an assistant professor in the Women's and Gender Studies Program and the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University.

"Dubriwny clearly explains the connections between neoliberal and postfeminist ideologies and effectively illustrates the ways in which these ideologies work in specific healthcare contexts. Her work is an original contribution to an important and growing conversation." - Kelly Pender (Virginia Tech) "This important critique convincingly problematizes the increased visibility of women's health in U.S. culture. A crucial text for scholars and activists committed to moving beyond postfeminist appropriations of women's lives."- Samantha King (author of Pink Ribbons, Inc.) "This focused volume critiques three discourses on women's health issues situated in personal empowerment narratives. This will be valuable for advanced scholars both within biomedicalization-oriented research and outside it. Recommended."(Choice) "The Vulnerable Empowered Woman is an obvious choice for gender and race courses, particularly dealing with health, but also neoliberalism. Beyond the obvious audience, this book is a good choice for an academic who wishes to better understand the 'language' of a colleague who studies postfeminism and related topics. The three contemporary topics covered in the case studies are highly accessible to the reader and Dubriwny’s careful attention to define terms that may be unfamiliar, often with examples, helps the reader move through each chapter." (World Medical and Health Policy)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Public Discourse and the Representation of the Vulnerable Empowered Woman1. Theorizing Postfeminist Health: Risk and the Postfeminist Subject2. Genetic Risk: Prophylactic Mastectomies and the Pursuit of Cancer-Free Life3. Postfeminist Risky Mothers and Postpartum Depression4. The Postfeminist Concession: Young Women, Sex, and Paternalism5. Feminist Women's Health Activism in the Twenty-first CenturyAfterword: From Martin to CenterNotesBibliographyIndex

TASHA N. DUBRIWNY is an assistant professor in the Women's and Gender Studies Program and the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University.

"Dubriwny clearly explains the connections between neoliberal and postfeminist ideologies and effectively illustrates the ways in which these ideologies work in specific healthcare contexts. Her work is an original contribution to an important and growing conversation." - Kelly Pender (Virginia Tech) "This important critique convincingly problematizes the increased visibility of women's health in U.S. culture. A crucial text for scholars and activists committed to moving beyond postfeminist appropriations of women's lives."- Samantha King (author of Pink Ribbons, Inc.) "This focused volume critiques three discourses on women's health issues situated in personal empowerment narratives. This will be valuable for advanced scholars both within biomedicalization-oriented research and outside it. Recommended."(Choice) "The Vulnerable Empowered Woman is an obvious choice for gender and race courses, particularly dealing with health, but also neoliberalism. Beyond the obvious audience, this book is a good choice for an academic who wishes to better understand the 'language' of a colleague who studies postfeminism and related topics. The three contemporary topics covered in the case studies are highly accessible to the reader and Dubriwny’s careful attention to define terms that may be unfamiliar, often with examples, helps the reader move through each chapter." (World Medical and Health Policy)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Public Discourse and the Representation of the Vulnerable Empowered Woman1. Theorizing Postfeminist Health: Risk and the Postfeminist Subject2. Genetic Risk: Prophylactic Mastectomies and the Pursuit of Cancer-Free Life3. Postfeminist Risky Mothers and Postpartum Depression4. The Postfeminist Concession: Young Women, Sex, and Paternalism5. Feminist Women's Health Activism in the Twenty-first CenturyAfterword: From Martin to CenterNotesBibliographyIndex

TASHA N. DUBRIWNY is an assistant professor in the Women's and Gender Studies Program and the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University.

"Dubriwny clearly explains the connections between neoliberal and postfeminist ideologies and effectively illustrates the ways in which these ideologies work in specific healthcare contexts. Her work is an original contribution to an important and growing conversation." - Kelly Pender (Virginia Tech) "This important critique convincingly problematizes the increased visibility of women's health in U.S. culture. A crucial text for scholars and activists committed to moving beyond postfeminist appropriations of women's lives."- Samantha King (author of Pink Ribbons, Inc.) "This focused volume critiques three discourses on women's health issues situated in personal empowerment narratives. This will be valuable for advanced scholars both within biomedicalization-oriented research and outside it. Recommended."(Choice) "The Vulnerable Empowered Woman is an obvious choice for gender and race courses, particularly dealing with health, but also neoliberalism. Beyond the obvious audience, this book is a good choice for an academic who wishes to better understand the 'language' of a colleague who studies postfeminism and related topics. The three contemporary topics covered in the case studies are highly accessible to the reader and Dubriwny’s careful attention to define terms that may be unfamiliar, often with examples, helps the reader move through each chapter." (World Medical and Health Policy)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Public Discourse and the Representation of the Vulnerable Empowered Woman1. Theorizing Postfeminist Health: Risk and the Postfeminist Subject2. Genetic Risk: Prophylactic Mastectomies and the Pursuit of Cancer-Free Life3. Postfeminist Risky Mothers and Postpartum Depression4. The Postfeminist Concession: Young Women, Sex, and Paternalism5. Feminist Women's Health Activism in the Twenty-first CenturyAfterword: From Martin to CenterNotesBibliographyIndex