the image features a text box which reads:
People are always telling me that I’m very brave ‘to expose myself’ in the way I do. I don’t agree. When you act in the light of knowledge which is in your own self interests, or in the interest of your group or class,then this is not bravery but is an absolute necessity.
The real bravery is to speak out in spite of others not wanting to hear. In re-inventing family history, very often it is the family members themselves who do not want to hear what individual members may have to say. However, in this instance in looking at medicine as a discourse in which the ‘truth’ of a disease is produced, I see such speaking out as a political act.
Beneath the text is an image of Jo Spence in profile, topless with a large breast resting in a piece of medical equipment, perhaps a scanner. The contrast between the naked flesh and the stark clinical machinery highlights the ‘unnatural’ setting of a hospital