In my opinion, I feel as though the term or phrase, “mainstream breast cancer culture” is a term that can be used in a relatively contemporary manner. To me, it comes off as a modern phrased pieced together bearing a variety of aspects in mind. First of all, the idea that this is a phrase needs to be broken down into context first. The first term mainstream alludes to the idea that mainstream is a basic state of thought that seems to be commonly found throughout societies. On the other hand, breast cancer culture seems to allude to how individuals view illnesses as such in a society like today’s. In order to assess and gauge the qualities as they are found, we have been provided with a source by Barbara L. Ley titled From Pink to Green. After personally reading Ley’s article and understanding what she is trying to get across, I feel that mainstream breast cancer culture and her article are sort of on two different parallels. On one hand we have the idea that suggests that breast cancer culture has a certain type of aura and emanates a series of values and statements that are commonly found the throughout the culture. Barbara’s journal serves to be relatively interesting as she writes onwards to discuss the several potential outcomes and availabilities at hand for her as an individual when it comes to things as such. Ley’s work starts out by mapping the feminist politics of environmental health. For starters, this is more historical as takes an account on how Clinton and several other women and individuals with interests in health science related fields worked together to develop the breast cancer fund. This would eventually be followed by the development of the coalition and other feminist breast cancer related organizations and awareness projects respectively. In this, I feel that breast cancer culture takes a hit and is exposed of its weakness in not being as liberal in thought and effectiveness respectively. This would include a series of idealistic statements that are incorporated as Ley’s Journal produces a more eco  – feminist standpoint, it serves to entail to more crowds than just the individual concept of mainstream breast cancer culture, which in theory has been cultivated over time and thus possesses the benefactors and negative aspects of being around and developing for as long as it has been. In which, I can state that the negatives of the culture ultimately dwindle between guidance, understanding and comprehension of the matter at hand. In which sometimes, people only understand what they choose to understand. I personally feel that there are bigger matters at hand through which individuals are unable contemplate their own individual opinions. In this case, gender roles played a mighty part into where each individual stood on the matter, especially when it came to the initial build – up to the movement in itself. Ultimately, women living their environment health politics only went to show how broad this matter is, and how stern its affects are on the concept of breast cancer alone. The awareness , the pink ribbon, all serve as mighty statements as societies continue to push forward even in today’s day and age to set several aspects such as politics, infrastructure, and research to align with the goals of an ever – changing society.

Works Cited

King, Samantha. “Book Review: Barbara L. Ley, From Pink to Green: Disease Prevention and the Environmental Breast Cancer Movement, Rutgers University Press, 2009.” Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, vol. 15, no. 2, 2011, pp. 206–207., doi:10.1177/1363459310364711.