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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Jamie White-Farnham; Bryna Siegel Finer; Cathryn Molloy |
ISBN: | 9780367192242 0367192241 9780367192259 036719225X |
OCLC Number: | 1089886978 |
Description: | xiii, 225 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction / Jamie White-Farnham and Cathryn Molloy -- Advocate / Donna Laux -- Writing my body, writing my health : a rhetorical autoethnography / Kim Hensley Owens -- Temporal disruptions : illness narratives before and after Web 2.0 / Ann Wallace -- Analyzing PCOs discourses : strategies for unpacking chronic illness and taking action / Marissa McKinley -- Rhetorics of empowerment for managing lupus pain : patient-to-patient knowledge sharing in online health forums / Cynthia Pengilly -- Rhetorics of self-disclosure : a feminist framework for infertility activism / Maria Novotny, Lori Beth De Hertogh -- Bridging the gap in care for women / Janeen Qadri -- Making bodies matter : norms and excesses in the well-woman visit / Kelly Whitney -- Doula advocacy : strategies for consent in labor and delivery / Sheri Rysdam -- Gendered responsibility : a critique of HPV vaccine ads, 2006-2016 / Erin Fitzgerald -- "Pregnant? You need a flu shot!" : safety and danger in medical discourses of maternal immunization / Lisa M. DeTora, Jennifer A. Malkowski -- "Most doctors will just say 'stop running'" : women runners' narratives, agency, and identity / Billie Tadros -- Reframing efficiency through usability : the code and baby-friendly USA / Oriana Gilson -- Fighting cancer from every angle / April Cabral -- "You have to be your own advocate" : patient self-advocacy as a coping mechanism for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer risk / Marleah Dean -- Activism by accuracy : women's health and hormonal birth control / Kristin Marie Bivens, Kirsti Cole, Amy Koerber -- Altering imaginaries and demanding treatment : women's AIDS activism in Toronto, 1980s-1990s / Janna Klostermann -- Costly expedience : reproductive rights and responses to slut-shaming / Laurie McMillan -- Afterword : The rhetorician [of health and medicine] as agent of social change : activism for the whole woman's body / Bryna Siegel Finer. |
Responsibility: | edited by Jamie White-Farnham, Bryna Siegel Finer, and Cathryn Molloy. |
Abstract:
Women's Health Advocacy tackles how women use various communication strategies to effect change in a health system that can be difficult to participate in and harmful by explicating rhetorical ingenuity-the creation of rhetorical means for specific and technical, yet personal, situations.
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