Lexington Books
Pages: 126
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Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-4985-4811-3 • Hardback • March 2018 • $104.00 • (£80.00)
978-1-4985-4812-0 • eBook • March 2018 • $98.50 • (£76.00)
Dinah A. Tetteh is assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Arkansas State University.
CHAPTER 1. Introduction
CHAPTER 2. (Not)making Sense: Receiving an Uncertain Diagnosis
CHAPTER 3. Setting Boundaries and Distancing Selves: Owning The Lived Experience of Ovarian Cancer
CHAPTER 4. Becoming an Ovarian Cancer Survivor: Managing Uncertainty and Survivor’s Guilt
CHAPTER 5. “I Feel Different”: Ovarian Cancer and Sexual Self-Concept
CHAPTER 6. Advocacy and Self-Advocacy in the Ovarian Cancer Context (With Gini Steinke)
CHAPTER 7. Afterward: Marrying the Personal and Medical to Improve Ovarian Cancer
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Informed by rhetorical and feminist scholarship on women’s health, Dinah Tetteh rightfully centers her analysis of women’s ovarian cancer experiences on women’s voices. Tetteh’s work is particularly insightful when she asks us to reconsider from a feminist perspective our expectations for and assumptions about women and ovarian cancer, from reckoning with the “survivor’s guilt” of a stage 1 survivor to broadening our understanding of self-advocacy.
— Tasha N. Dubriwny, Texas A&M University
Tetteh’s book invites us to think critically about the discourse of women’s health self-advocacy, directing our attention to the specific challenges of being an “assertive, outspoken, and compliant” ovarian cancer patient. Her study’s explicitly feminist methodology moves from the “Angelina Jolie effect” to the experiences and voices of a group of non-famous women with ovarian cancer, reinforcing her assertion of the importance of a partnership between women with ovarian cancer and the medical and research communities.
— Martha Stoddard Holmes, California State University San Marcos
Informed by rhetorical and feminist scholarship on women’s health, Dinah Tetteh rightfully centers her analysis of women’s ovarian cancer experiences on women’s voices. Tetteh’s work is particularly insightful when she asks us to reconsider from a feminist perspective our expectations for and assumptions about women and ovarian cancer, from reckoning with the “survivor’s guilt” of a stage 1 survivor to broadening our understanding of self-advocacy.
— Martha Stoddard Holmes, California State University San Marcos