Alexis Baer                                                                                        about 200 words
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INTD: Writing Science

One-Breasted Women
by Alexis Baer

 
Terry Tempest Williams main point in writing this essay was to show readers what exactly her family had to deal with and how they had been suffering all these years. Williams begins her writing with stating that the government is the only one to blame due to their nuclear bombing and testing which has been proved to be the main cause of cancer in women. With regards to her family; nine innocent women have been greatly affected, seven losing their lives, and this resulted in why she decided to rebel. Williams decided to join this Clan of One-Breasted Women in spite of fear, anger, inability to question, and personal violation. She wanted to strike against higher authority in order to bring about change for future generations of women. Although her experiences do not connect directly to myself, her ideas do make me wonder why the clan was only made up of women. During that time period, were men not allowed to join the clan solely based on the fact that only women got the cancer and fought the battle? I believe in Williams case, her father would be upset with the amount of women in the family being affected by cancer, but why would he not take action against nuclear tests as well?