Breast Surgery as a Gender Technology: Analyzing Plastic Surgeons’ Discourses

Gerard Coll-Planas, Ph.D. in Sociology, is Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at University of Vic–Central University of Catalonia. Among others, Coll-Planas has published the following papers: “The Wounded Blogger: Analysis of Narratives by Women With Breast Cancer” (Sociology of Health & Illness, 2016, with M. Visa), “Challenging Equality Policies: The Emerging LGTB Perspective” (European Journal of Women’s Studies, 2013, with M. Cruells), and “‘Having Words for Everything’: Institutionalising Gender Migration in Spain” (Sexualities, 2011, with P. Soley-Beltran).
CONTACT Gerard Coll-Planas, Ph.D. gerard.coll@uvic.cat Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (CEIG), University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC), C. de la Laura, 13, 08500 Vic, Spain.

Marta Cruells, Ph.D. in Political Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, is adviser of feminist and lesbian, gay, trans, bisexual, and intersex (LGBTI) policies at the town council of Barcelona. Her research concerns equality policies, gender and intersectional theory, and social movements. She has published articles on these issues in peer-reviewed journals and chapters in edited books.

Eva Alfama, Ph.D., is a policy researcher and Ph.D. candidate in Political Science, the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She has conducted research on social and gender politics, health and political mobilization, and currently works at the Barcelona city council.