Abstract:We define bodily identity as a fluid process in which individuals self-classify as certain social groups based on bodily experience and reproduce the physical characteristics of these groups. Breast cancer as a serious disease not only damages women's body, but also brings forth crisis in their bodily identity. The paper identifies two forms of bodily identity: disease oriented bodily identity and gendered bodily identity. Breast cancer changes women's healthy and their normal (gendered) bodily identity, they would accept the diseased\deforming bodily identity gradually, while they would actively develop a series of practices with the body and approaches to managing impressions. They form a new bodily identity, while fighting against the disease.
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