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    Rights statement: This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of a chapter accepted for publication in Healthcare Activism: Markets, Morals, and the Collective Good Edited by Susi Geiger. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Heroes, Villains, and Victims: Tracing Breast Cancer Activist Movements, Mohammed Cheded and Gillian Hopkinson Chapter 7 of Healthcare Activism: Markets, Morals, and the Collective Good Edited by Susi Geiger, 2021 reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press https://global.oup.com/academic/product/healthcare-activism-9780198865223

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Heroes, Villains, and Victims: Tracing Breast Cancer Activist Movements

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Publication date9/09/2021
Host publicationHealthcare Activism Markets, Morals, and the Collective Good
EditorsSusi Geiger
Place of PublicationOxford
PublisherOxford University Press
Pages165-197
Number of pages33
Edition1st
ISBN (print)9780198865223
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

This chapter explores the construction of dramaturgic characters in social movement narratives surrounding breast cancer. It contributes to developing a better understanding of the role of plotting and characterization in these social movement narratives by highlighting three primary functions. First, the authors elaborate on the functions of the plotting of the central characters of a social movement narrative and their emotional appeal, in contributing to mobilizing collective action as well as operating a disciplining tool for the biological citizen. Second, they shed light on the effects of the simplification versus complexification of the characterization of the villain on mobilizing the audience’s emotions. Finally, they discuss the role of the individualization and collectivization dynamics in the various social movement narratives in stabilizing and/or destabilizing certain political realities.

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This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of a chapter accepted for publication in Healthcare Activism: Markets, Morals, and the Collective Good Edited by Susi Geiger. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Heroes, Villains, and Victims: Tracing Breast Cancer Activist Movements, Mohammed Cheded and Gillian Hopkinson Chapter 7 of Healthcare Activism: Markets, Morals, and the Collective Good Edited by Susi Geiger, 2021 reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press https://global.oup.com/academic/product/healthcare-activism-9780198865223