Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development

摘要: Janet Reibstein's mother and two aunts grew up in New Jersey amid a close-knit, extended Jewish family set apart only by genetic propensity for breast cancer. Over fifty years, the disease claims Janet's aunts, then her mother, cousin. Finally must face far-reaching decision of whether to undergo preemptive mastectomy herself. A history America as well story sisters, mothers daughters, men who love them, Staying Alive is ultimately tale extraordinary strength power survival.