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Writing childbirth : women's rhetorical agency in labor and online / Kim Hensley Owens.
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Ebscohost Ebooks University Press Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Owens, Kim Hensley, 1974- author.
- Series:
- Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms
- Studies in rhetoric and feminisms
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Childbirth--United States--Psychological aspects.
- Childbirth.
- Childbirth--United States--Computer network resources.
- Patients' writings--United States--History and criticism.
- Patients' writings.
- Birth plans--United States.
- Birth plans.
- Rhetoric--United States.
- Rhetoric.
- Internet in medicine--United States.
- Internet in medicine.
- Communication in medicine--United States.
- Communication in medicine.
- Communication in obstetrics--United States.
- Communication in obstetrics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (226 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale, Illinois : Southern Illinois University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Women seeking to express concerns about childbirth or to challenge institutionalized medicine by writing online birth plans or birth stories exercise rhetorical agency in undeniably feminist ways.
- Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""INTRODUCTION: Writing Birth-Asserting Rhetorical Agency""; ""1. UNDERSTANDiNG BiRTH: Commonplaces of Modern American Childbirth Advice""; ""2. INVENTiNG BiRTH: Rhetorics of Control and Resistance""; ""3. CONFRONTiNG BiRTH: Rhetorical Disability and Five Women's Birth Plans""; ""4. HOSTiNG BiRTH: Birth and Birth Stories over Time and Online""; ""5. SHARiNG BiRTH: Catharsis, Commentary, and Testimonial in Online Birth Stories""; ""EPiLOGUE: Experiencing Birth""; ""APPENDIX A: SURVEY RECRUITMENT EMAIL""
- ""APPENDIX B: CHILDBIRTH WRITING SURVEY""""NOTES""; ""WORKS CITED""; ""INDEX""; ""Author Biography""; ""Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms""; ""Other Books in the Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms Series""; ""Back Cover""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8093-3406-2
- OCLC:
- 919012885
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