ArticleNursing forum2020
Mastectomy tattoos: An emerging alternative for reclaiming self.
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- "This is the first time I felt they're mine": the significance of tattoos in coping and identity reconstruction following mastectomy.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Article
- Clinical evaluation of photochromic nanoparticle tattoo ink: safety, tolerability, and performance of rewritable intradermal implants.Journal of nanobiotechnology · 2026Article
- "Art is just something that makes people heal"-a qualitative investigation of tattoo artists' perspectives on cancer survivorship therapeutic tattoos.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2026Article
- Tattooing Among Combat Soldiers as a Coping Resource With Their Military Service Experiences.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2025Article
- A nurse-led multidisciplinary service for Nipple-Areola complex tattooing after breast cancer: reporting on a complex intervention with TIDieR analysis.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Medical tattooing as a complementary cosmetic intervention to reduce body-image distress and mental health symptoms in U.S. breast cancer survivors.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2024Article
- The marked body: Exploring experiences of post-mastectomy scarring, body image and change through artistic tattooing.Journal of health psychology · 2024Article
- Tattooing to reconstruct Nipple-Areola Complex after oncological breast surgery: a scoping review.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2024Article
- Mastectomy tattoos: An emerging alternative for reclaiming self.Nursing forum · 2020Article
- Advancing Equity in Breast Cancer Care Through Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement.Cancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer CenterReview
- Breast scars and creative well-being: Personal stories and experiences of healing.Women's health (London, England)Review
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Abstract
Recent discourses within breast cancer and gendered studies literature suggest some women are challenging postmastectomy bodies as abject bodies. Tattooing is an emerging body project in contemporary society that can offer women who live disembodied from their postmastectomized body an alternative. We consider embodied health movements, a type of social movement, to explore how acquiring meaningful tattoo art over a mastectomized site can been seen as challenging hegemonic, gendered discourses of the female breast and patriarchal ideals of beauty, post mastectomy. As part of emancipatory practices, tattooed bodies have historically been used to challenge dominant discourses related to identity and is currently evolving into practices of self-expression, healing, and transformation. As an emerging phenomenon among women, it is important for nurses to understand the prevalence and role of tattoos more broadly, and the possible means for women to embody healing and transformation post mastectomy.
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