Writing Childbirth: Women's Rhetorical Agency in Labor and Online

by Kim Hensley Owens

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. In Writing Childbirth: Women's Rhetorical Agency in Labor and Online, author Kim Hensley Owens explores how women create and use everyday rhetorics in planning for, experiencing, and writing about childbirth.

Drawing on medical texts, popular...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809334054
• ISBN13: 9780809334056
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 9.1"