1st Edition
Women's Health Advocacy Rhetorical Ingenuity for the 21st Century
Introduction
Jamie White-Farnham and Cathryn Molloy
Section 1: Rhetorics of Self
Advocate
Donna Laux
1. Writing My Body, Writing My Health: A Rhetorical Autoethnography
Kim Hensley Owens
2. Temporal Disruptions: Illness Narratives Before and After Web 2.0
Ann Wallace
3.Analyzing PCOS Discourses: Strategies for Unpacking Chronic Illness and Taking Action
Marissa McKinley
4.Rhetorics of Empowerment for Managing Lupus Pain: Patient-to-Patient Knowledge Sharing in Online Health Forums
Cynthia Pengilly
5. Rhetorics of Self-Disclosure: A Feminist Framework for Infertility Activism
Maria Novotny, Lori Beth De Hertogh
Section 2: Rhetorics of/and the Patient
Bridging the Gap in Care for Women
Janeen Qadri
6. Making Bodies Matter: Norms and Excesses in the Well-Woman Visit
Kelly Whitney
7. Doula Advocacy: Strategies for Consent in Labor and Delivery
Sheri Rysdam
8. Gendered Responsibility: A Critique of HPV Vaccine Ads, 2006-2016
Erin Fitzgerald
9. "Pregnant?" You Need a Flu Shot!": Safety and Danger in Medical Discourses of Maternal Immunization
Lisa M. DeTora, Jennifer A. Malkowski
10. "Most Doctors Will Just Say ‘Stop running’": Women Runners’ Narratives, Agency, and Identity
Billie Tadros
11.Reframing Efficiency through Usability: The Code and Baby-Friendly USA
Oriana Gilson
Section 3: Rhetorics of Advocacy
Fighting Cancer from Every Angle
April Cabral
12. "You Have to Be Your Own Advocate": Patient Self-advocacy as a Coping Mechanism for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Risk
Marleah Dean
13. Activism by Accuracy: Women’s Health and Hormonal Birth Control
Kristin Marie Bivens, Kirsti Cole, Amy Koerber
14. Altering Imaginaries and Demanding Treatment: Women’s AIDS Activism in Toronto, 1980s-1990s
Janna Klostermann
15.Costly Expedience: Reproductive Rights and Responses to Slut-Shaming
Laurie McMillan
"The Rhetorician [of Health and Medicine] as Agent of Social Change": Activism for the Whole Woman’s Body
Bryna Siegel Finer
Biography
Jamie White-Farnham is Associate Professor and Writing Coordinator at the University of Wisconsin-Superior.
Bryna Siegel Finer is Associate Professor and the Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Cathryn Molloy is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in James Madison University's School of Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication.
