Chinese women's rhetorical agency in reproduction and social media

Authors

Hua Wang, Michigan Technological UniversityFollow

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

10-2019

Department

Department of Humanities

Abstract

This research examines twenty pregnant women’s and new mothers’ posts on the 2017/2018 number-one childbirth and parenting app in China, named Baby Tree, to see how these women have written their embodied experience of pregnancy and mothering into the online narratives and stories. This study also examines how women respond to China’s dominant and hegemonic healthcare and medical discourse and practice while simultaneously asserting their rhetorical agency politically and economically through online writing.

Publisher's Statement

© 2019 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Publisher’s version of record: https://doi.org/10.1145/3328020.3353910

Publication Title

SIGDOC '19: The 37th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication Proceedings

Recommended Citation

Wang, H. (2019). Chinese women's rhetorical agency in reproduction and social media. SIGDOC '19: The 37th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication Proceedings, 1-2. http://doi.org/10.1145/3328020.3353910
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/michigantech-p/1209