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 advice books, and online birth plans and birth stories, as well as the results of a childbirth writing survey, Owens considers how women s agency in...
Women seeking to express concerns about childbirth or to challenge institutionalized medicine by writing online birth plans or birth stories exerci...