Jamie White-Farnham is Associate Professor and Writing Coordinator at the University of Wisconsin-Superior.Bryna Siegel Finer is Associate Professor and the Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.Cathryn Molloy is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in James Madison University's School of Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication.

• IntroductionJamie White-Farnham and Cathryn MolloySection 1: Rhetorics of SelfAdvocateDonna Laux1. Writing My Body, Writing My Health: A Rhetorical AutoethnographyKim Hensley Owens2. Temporal Disruptions: Illness Narratives Before and After Web 2.0Ann Wallace3.Analyzing PCOS Discourses: Strategies for Unpacking Chronic Illness and Taking ActionMarissa McKinley4.Rhetorics of Empowerment for Managing Lupus Pain: Patient-to-Patient Knowledge Sharing in Online Health ForumsCynthia Pengilly5. Rhetorics of Self-Disclosure: A Feminist Framework for Infertility ActivismMaria Novotny and Lori Beth De HertoghSection 2: Rhetorics of/and the PatientBridging the Gap in Care for WomenJaneen Qadri6. Making Bodies Matter: Norms and Excesses in the Well-Woman VisitKelly Whitney7. Doula Advocacy: Strategies for Consent in Labor and DeliverySheri Rysdam8. Gendered Responsibility: A Critique of HPV Vaccine Advertisements, 2006–2016Erin Fitzgerald9. "Pregnant? You Need a Flu Shot!": Safety and Danger in Medical Discourses of Maternal ImmunizationLisa M. DeTora and Jennifer A. Malkowski10. "Most Doctors Will Just Say ‘Stop running’": Women Runners’ Narratives, Agency, and IdentityBillie R. Tadros Section 3: Rhetorics of AdvocacyFighting Cancer from Every AngleApril Cabral11.Reframing Efficiency Through Usability: The Code and Baby-Friendly USAOriana Gilson12. "You Have to Be Your Own Advocate": Patient Self-Advocacy as a Coping Mechanism for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer RiskMarleah Dean 13. Activism by Accuracy: Women’s Health and Hormonal Birth ControlKristin Marie Bivens, Kirsti Cole, and Amy Koerber14. Altering Imaginaries and Demanding Treatment: Women’s AIDS Activism in Toronto, 1980s–1990sJanna Klostermann15. Costly Expedience: Reproductive Rights and Responses to Slut ShamingLaurie McMillanAfterword – "The Rhetorician [of Health and Medicine] as Agent of Social Change": Activism for the Whole Woman’s BodyBryna Siegel Finer

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