Women's health advocacy : rhetorical ingenuity for the 21st century /
Women's Health Activism brings together academic studies and personal narratives to demonstrate how women use a variety of arguments, forms of writing and communication strategies to affect change in a health system that is not only often difficult to participate in, but which can be actively h...
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New York :
Routledge,
2019.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of 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.