Pcos Discourses, Symbolic Impacts, and Feminist Rhetorical - Disruptions of Institutional Hegemonie

This book examines media and clinical discourses and their impact on women with PCOS. Findings from the study reveal that while women with PCOS have limited agency in constructing and representing their identities and ontologies in traditional media, by networking in participatory new media, these women can reclaim their agency.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Hegemonic Institutions and Discourses and the Subjugation of the Female Body
Chapter 2: RHM Contributions, Edifications, and Feminist Positions About the Body
Chapter 3: Studying PCOS in Digital and Mass Media Through the Feminist Communitarian Model
Chapter 4: Constructing, Representing, and Responding to PCOS in Mass Media: Enforcing and Offering Alternatives for the Hairlessness Norm and Performing Disidentification and Identification
Chapter 5: Fulfilling Rhetorical Needs in Cyberspace: Health Advocacy and Patient Empowerment in myPCOSteam
Chapter 6: Conclusion and Looking Toward the Future of PCOS Rhetorical Work
Appendix
Works Cited
About the Author

About the author

Marissa C. McKinley is assistant teaching professor of English at Quinnipiac University.

Summary

This book examines media and clinical discourses and their impact on women with PCOS. Findings from the study reveal that while women with PCOS have limited agency in constructing and representing their identities and ontologies in traditional media, by networking in participatory new media, these women can reclaim their agency.

Product details

• Authors: Marissa C. McKinley
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781666905502
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-550-2
• No. of pages: 162
• Series: Lexington Studies in Health Communication; Bloomsbury Studies in Health Communication
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HEALTH & FITNESS / Women's Health, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Women's health, Women’s health, Communication Studies, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc