ABSTRACT
Women’s Health Advocacy brings together academic studies and personal narratives to demonstrate how women use a variety of arguments, forms of writing, and communication strategies to effect 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 for activists, patients, and professionals.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section 1|2 pages
Rhetorics of Self
chapter 3|11 pages
Analyzing PCOS Discourses
chapter 4|14 pages
Rhetorics of Empowerment for Managing Lupus Pain
section 2|2 pages
Rhetorics of/and the Patient
chapter 9|11 pages
“Pregnant? You Need a Flu Shot!”
chapter 10|11 pages
“Most Doctors Will Just Say ‘Stop running’”
section 3|2 pages
Rhetorics of Advocacy