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