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PCOS Discourses, Symbolic Impacts, and Feminist Rhetorical Disruptions of Institutional Hegemonies
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2023
Summary
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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Edition
1/2023
Copyright Year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-0550-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-0551-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
146
Product Type
Monograph
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Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
List of Abbreviations No access
Hegemonic Institutions and Discourses and the Subjugation of the Female Body No access Pages 1 - 30
RHM Contributions, Edifications, and Feminist Positions about the Body No access Pages 31 - 48
Studying PCOS in Digital and Mass Media through the Feminist Communitarian Model No access Pages 49 - 72
Constructing, Representing, and Responding to PCOS in Mass Media No access Pages 73 - 86
Fulfilling Rhetorical Needs in Cyberspace No access Pages 87 - 100
Conclusion and Looking Toward the Future of PCOS Rhetorical Work No access Pages 101 - 120
