PCOS Discourses, Symbolic Impacts, and Feminist Rhetorical Disruptions of Institutional Hegemonies
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PCOS Discourses, Symbolic Impacts, and Feminist Rhetorical Disruptions of Institutional Hegemonies

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  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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PCOS Discourses, Symbolic Impacts, and Feminist Rhetorical Disruptions of Institutional Hegemonies

About this book

PCOS Discourses, Symbolic Impacts, and Feminist Rhetorical Disruptions of Institutional Hegemonies examines the power of hegemonic institutions and their impact on bodies, focusing on how women with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) employ rhetorical strategies to resist and disrupt mass media and clinical discourses that seek to define them and their experiences. This monograph argues that through the enactment of bio-power (Foucault), digital and mass media have denied women with PCOS opportunities for autonomous subject formation, and, in turn, allowances for constructing their ontologies and epistemologies. However, by networking in participatory new media, McKinley posits, women with PCOS can reclaim their agency. To support this argument, McKinley rhetorically examines three PCOS artifacts—a television episode, an online popular culture forum, and an online health forum. This monograph bridges the personal and the academic and adds to and extends the work being done in the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (RHM) on PCOS through the adoption of a unique theoretical lens (e.g., Lisa Melonçon's performative phenomenology) and methodology (e.g., Norman K. Denzin's Feminist Communitarian Model) and contributes to conversations surrounding femaleness, femininity, women's health challenges, and advocacy, as located in RHM scholarship and related fields.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. List of Abbreviations
  6. Hegemonic Institutions and Discourses and the Subjugation of the Female Body
  7. RHM Contributions, Edifications, and Feminist Positions about the Body
  8. Studying PCOS in Digital and Mass Media through the Feminist Communitarian Model
  9. Constructing, Representing, and Responding to PCOS in Mass Media
  10. Fulfilling Rhetorical Needs in Cyberspace
  11. Conclusion and Looking Toward the Future of PCOS Rhetorical Work
  12. ‌‌‌‌‌Appendix‌‌‌‌
  13. Works Cited
  14. Index
  15. About the Author