Sex, Blood, and Symptoms: Health and the Rhetorical Construction of Female Identity

Session Submission Type: Panel Discussion

Abstract

One way gendered identities take shape is though efforts to promote a healthy, pain-free, disease-free, and symptomless human body. The papers in this panel examine the rhetorical construction of female identity in a variety of health-related discourses. They show how mediated representations of female health construct what it means to be a woman on the basis on varying agendas and how women themselves participate in this construction as both educators and healthcare providers.

Sub Unit

• American Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology

Chair

• Adam David Roth, Univ of Pittsburgh

Respondent

• Lisa Keranen, Univ of Colorado, Boulder

Session Organizer

• Michelle G Gibbons, Univ of Pittsburgh