研究結果發現，女性乳癌患者在書中多呈現主動、積極的形象，是勇於掌握身體自主權者。從發現罹癌開始，一連串的痛苦接踵而至，她們從磨難中領悟生命道理，重新擁抱生命、擁抱自己，賦予這些加諸於身上的痛苦，更深層的意義。在面對父權的壓迫時，偶而雖仍感到無力，但也會採取柔性內斂的方式抵抗。最後，不論選擇施行重建手術與否，她們多半能從新的身體裡找到自我認同的確立。 In recent years, the chance of getting breast cancer has grown rapidly. Breast cancer has become every woman''s nightmare. Mastectomy (a medical term for the surgery to remove one or both breasts) is one of the usual treatments for breast cancer. It not only causes physical pain but also confuses female identity.
The purpose of the study was to explore the situation of women with breast cancer in society, and how to reconstruct identity by their life writing. In the study, we chose the life writing of breast cancer patients as a research text, and take narrative analysis as a research framework. At last, we take feminism as well as narrative therapy as our research perspective.
The study found that the breast cancer patients often presented positive image in their book, and they‘re a fighter to defend their body autonomy. Although they suffered from cancer, they understood the meaning of life. When they face patriarchal oppression, they take a flexible approach to resist. Most of breast cancer patients build self-identity from their new body, no matter whether they take a surgery of breast reconstruction or not.
