BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:EventsCalendar PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T053451Z TZURL:https://www.tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality DESCRIPTION:Dr. Kristin Abatsis McHenry presents" Men have breasts too! cri pping and queering the pinkification of breast cancer". Lunch provided. Wh ile men with breast cancer make up a relatively small percentage of breast cancer cases, their experiences of diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship are rarely discussed in part because the breast cancer movement in its pi nk ribbon discourse perpetuates narrow binary gender constructions which p osition femininity as central to breast cancer.  In feminist scholarship, much has been said about women’s breasts as sexualized, objectified, fe tishized, and regulated within structures of heteropatriarchy.  Just as w omen’s breast cancer narratives reveal much about women’s relationship s to breasts and structures of gender, heteronormativity, race, and normat e bodies, likewise men’s breast cancer narratives and illness experience s do as well.  Using queer feminist analysis and disability frameworks I analyze men’s survivor stories and representation posted on six advocacy organization’s websites conducting analysis of heteromasculinity found men’s breast cancer experiences, by focusing on the queer contexts of di sability found in male breast cancer discourse. This presentation seeks to disrupt the feminization of breast cancer, and to argue that male breast cancer warrants attention not because it is a common experience but rather because it gives insight into understandings of gender, the body, and dis ability.  Kristen Abatsis McHenry’s research interests include: genealo gies and politics of cancer, and environmental health advocacy, and the ge ndered health dimensions of fracking using feminist technoscience theoreti cal frameworks.  Kristen Abatsis McHenry holds a doctorate in Political S cience from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  She completed her M.A. at Georgia State University in Women's studies, and her B.A. is from Ithaca College in Women’s Studies and Politics.  Kristen Abatsis McHenr y published her first book The Green Solution to Breast Cancer: the Promis e of Prevention (2015 Praeger) and is currently working on her next book m anuscript Don't Frack Your Mother under contract with University of Washin gton Press' Feminist Technoscience Series. She has also published articles in Signs, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, and Energy Research and Social Science. She currently is the Director of Healt h and Society and Associate Professor of Political Science at University o f Massachusetts Dartmouth.  \nEvent page: https://www.umassd.edu/events/c ms/10-7-26-men-have-breasts-too.php X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Dr. Kristin Abatsis McHenry pre sents" Men have breasts too! cripping and queering the pinkification of br east cancer". Lunch provided.

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While men with breast cancer make up a relatively small percentage of breast cancer cases\, their experiences of diagnosis\, treatment\, and survivorship are rarely discussed in part b ecause the breast cancer movement in its pink ribbon discourse perpetuates narrow binary gender constructions which position femininity as central t o breast cancer.  In feminist scholarship\, much has been said about wome n’s breasts as sexualized\, objectified\, fetishized\, and regulated wit hin structures of heteropatriarchy.  Just as women’s breast cancer narr atives reveal much about women’s relationships to breasts and structures of gender\, heteronormativity\, race\, and normate bodies\, likewise men ’s breast cancer narratives and illness experiences do as well.  Using queer feminist analysis and disability frameworks I analyze men’s surviv or stories and representation posted on six advocacy organization’s webs ites conducting analysis of heteromasculinity found men’s breast cancer experiences\, by focusing on the queer contexts of disability found in mal e breast cancer discourse. This presentation seeks to disrupt the feminiza tion of breast cancer\, and to argue that male breast cancer warrants atte ntion not because it is a common experience but rather because it gives in sight into understandings of gender\, the body\, and disability. 

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Kristen Abatsis McHenry’s research interests include: genealogies and p olitics of cancer\, and environmental health advocacy\, and the gendered h ealth dimensions of fracking using feminist technoscience theoretical fram eworks.  Kristen Abatsis McHenry holds a doctorate in Political Science f rom the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst.  She completed her M.A. at Georgia State University in Women's studies\, and her B.A. is from Ithaca College in Women’s Studies and Politics.  Kristen Abatsis McHenry publ ished her first book The Green Solution to Breast Cancer: the Promise of P revention (2015 Praeger) and is currently working on her next book manuscr ipt Don't Frack Your Mother under contract with University of Washington P ress' Feminist Technoscience Series. She has also published articles in Si gns\, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics\, and Ener gy Research and Social Science. She currently is the Director of Health an d Society and Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Ma ssachusetts Dartmouth.  

Event page: https://www.umassd.edu/even ts/cms/10-7-26-men-have-breasts-too.php

DTSTAMP:20260715T164909 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T130000 LOCATION:Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:Queer Scholar Luncheon: "Men have breasts too! cripp ing and queering the pinkification of breast cancer" UID:52b9e7396670c9e6dfa6391f0c37a41d@www.umassd.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR