Women's Health Advocacy

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 and 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 Advertisements, 2006-2016
Erin Fitzgerald

9. "Pregnant? You Need a Flu Shot!": Safety and Danger in Medical Discourses of Maternal Immunization
Lisa M. DeTora and Jennifer A. Malkowski

10. "Most Doctors Will Just Say 'Stop running'": Women Runners' Narratives, Agency, and Identity
Billie R. Tadros

Section 3: Rhetorics of Advocacy

Fighting Cancer from Every Angle
April Cabral

11.Reframing Efficiency Through Usability: The Code and Baby-Friendly USA
Oriana Gilson

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, and 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

Afterword - "The Rhetorician [of Health and Medicine] as Agent of Social Change": Activism for the Whole Woman's Body
Bryna Siegel Finer