Activism by Accuracy: Women's Health and Hormonal Birth Control
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2020
Abstract
By juxtaposing contemporary hormonal birth control advertisements with naturopathic discourses about women’s hormones, this chapter argues that accurate information about hormonal birth control from alternative practitioners is a powerful form of activism—activism by accuracy. This chapter also explores how alternative and naturopathic discourses provide powerful counter-narratives to existing doxastic beliefs about hormonal birth control by providing patients with accurate hormonal and physiological health information. Furthermore, examining doxa that exist beneath the surface of current medical discourses on hormonal birth control (e.g., prioritizing effectiveness to prevent pregnancy over hormonal health) exposes how doxa persist and the rhetorical work they accomplish.
ISBN
9780367192259
Publication Title
Women's Health Advocacy: Rhetorical Ingenuity for the 21st Century
Buy Link
https://www.routledge.com/Womens-Health-Advocacy-Rhetorical-Ingenuity-for-the-21st-Century/White-Farnham-Finer-Molloy/p/book/9780367192259
Recommended Citation
Bivens, K., Cole, K., & Koerber, A., (2020). Activism by accuracy: Women's health and hormonal birth control. In J. White-Farnham, B. Siegel Finer, & C. Molloy (Eds.), Women's health advocacy: Rhetorical ingenuity for the 21st century (pp. 163-176). Routledge.
Publisher's Copyright and Source
Copyright © 2020 Routledge.
