title: Documenting women's postoperative bodies: Knowing Stephanie and "Remembering Stephanie" as collaborative cancer narratives.
abstract: Photographic representations of women living with or beyond breast cancer have gained prominence in recent decades. Postmillennial visual narratives are both documentary projects and dialogic sites of self-construction and reader-viewer witness. After a brief overview of 30 years of breast cancer photography, this essay analyzes a collaborative photo-documentary by Stephanie Byram and Charlee Brodsky, Knowing Stephanie (2003), and a memorial photographic essay by Brodsky written ten years after Byram's death, "Remembering Stephanie" (2014). The ethics of representing women's postsurgical bodies and opportunities for reader-viewers to engage in "productive looking" (Kaja Silverman's concept) are the focal issues under consideration.
authors.affiliation: Departments of English and Women's and Gender Studies, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, 27109, USA, deshazer@wfu.edu.
authors.forename: Mary K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: DeShazer
mesh_terms: D001828:Body Image / Q000523:psychology; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D004954:Esthetics / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D019513:Feminism; D006801:Humans; D016462:Mammaplasty; D015411:Mastectomy, Modified Radical / Q000523:psychology*; D033262:Narration; D010781:Photography / Q000941:ethics* / Q000639:trends; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D014956:Writing