Women's health advocacy : rhetorical ingenuity for the 21st century / edited by Jamie White-Farnham, Bryna Siegel Finer, Cathryn Molloy.

"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 harmful. It explicates the concept of rhetorical ingenuity--the creation of rhetorical means for specific and technical, yet extremely personal, situations. At a time when women's health concerns are at the center of national debate, this rhetorical ingenuity provides means for women to uncover latent sources of oppression in women's health and medicine and to influence matters of research, funding, policy, and everyday access to healthcare in the face of exclusion and disenfranchisement. This accessible collection will be inspiring reading for academics and students in health communication, medical humanities, and women's studies, as well as to activists, patients, and professionals"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

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