{"id":870,"date":"2012-02-03T09:15:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T09:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/&#038;p=870"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:46:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:46:43","slug":"seeing-red-over-pink-ribbons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2012\/02\/03\/seeing-red-over-pink-ribbons\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing Red Over Pink Ribbons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='citation'>\n    <span class='authors'>Gayle A. Sulik, <\/span><span class='link'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oup.com\/us\/catalog\/general\/subject\/Medicine\/Oncology\/?view=usa&#038;ci=9780199740451\"><em>Pink Ribbon Blues: How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Women&#8217;s Health<\/em>,<\/a><\/span><span class='year'> 2010<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation recently withdrew its grant funding for a Planned Parenthood program that provided over 170,000 clinical breast exams annually&#8212;and the move spiked a severe backlash, including threats of resignation from a number of Komen&#8217;s own board members. But it&#8217;s not the first time the politics of pink have come into question (nor will it be the last). Today&#8217;s reading list item will help provide nuance and context as you watch the Komen kerfuffle unfold in the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gayle A. Sulik, Pink Ribbon Blues: How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Women&#8217;s Health, 2010 The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation recently withdrew its grant funding for a Planned Parenthood program that provided over 170,000 clinical breast exams annually&#8212;and the move spiked a severe backlash, including threats of resignation from a number of Komen&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,33],"tags":[14907,129,4071],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-health","tag-sociology-of-culture","tag-media","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8359,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions\/8359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}