| 英文摘要 |
This essay explores medical discourses of breast cancer treatments and breast reconstruction, and illness narratives of women patients. The way of ‘remaking the breast’ is also a part of the process of ‘doing gender.’ From the surgery techniques of radical mastectomy to oncoplastic surgery, mainstream medical gaze has shifted, and emphasizes the wholeness of the normative feminine body through cosmetic surgery. This research points out that patients’ biographical works of illness and gender identities have been continuously renegotiated after the treatment. From abject bodies to the stage of ‘rebirth,’ women patients experience multiple routes, which cannot be separated from their family responsibilities in the private sphere, work pressure, identity and so on. The cause of illness is attributed to pressures of gender roles between ‘new superwomen’ and traditional ‘sim-pū’. Patients gradually transform their illness narrative into new meanings of different types ‘rebirth’ or enter chaos narrative, while confronting future uncertainties. |
