“I AM sorry ma’am but New York Times cannot publish the word breast or cancer on its pages…”. When Fanny Rosenaud heard these words from a newspaper editor in the early 1950s, she was disappointed, but probably not surprised. After being treated for breast cancer, she started a support group for women with the disease and wants to promote it, say Jimmy Holland and Sheldon Lewis. The human side of cancer (Harper Collins, 2001). But in America in the 1950s, cancer leads its way in silence. we are silent and suffer. “Perhaps it can be said that there will be a meeting on diseases of the rib…”., the journalist tries awkwardly. A few decades later, another atmosphere. “You Can’t Look Away Anymore”proclaim it New York Times Magazine on the cover, 1993, with a full-page photo of artist Matushka showing her mastectomy scar.
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Source: Le Figaro
