Barbara Ehrenreich's "Welcome to Cancerland", originally published in Harper's
in 2001, is an excellent entry point for discussion on the "politics of
pinking".

http://www.barbaraehrenreich.com/cancerland.htm

best,

Nate Harron




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> Perhaps, it would be nice to see something like this on 'pink collar' and
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