Gender in Applied Communication Contexts

by Patrice M. Buzzanell

• ISBN13: 9780761928652
• ISBN10: 0761928650
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781452267081
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-30
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
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Summary

Gender in Applied Communication Contexts explores the intersection and integration of feminist theory as applied to four important areas: organizational communication, health communication, family communication, and instructional communication. This collection of readings links theoretical insights and contributions to pragmatic ways of improving the lives of women and men in a variety of professional and personal situations. Gender in Applied Communication Contexts is recommended for upper-division and graduate-level courses in gender and communication, feminist theory, organizational communication, health communication, instructional communication, and applied communication. This anthology is also recommended as a research resource for scholars in Women's Studies, Family Studies, and Business and Management.

Table of Contents

Foreword - William F. Eadie

Introduction: Challenging Commonsense - Patrice M. Buzzanell, Helen Sterk, and Lynn H. Turner

Part I: Organizing Gender

Ch 1. When They Know Who We Are: The National Women's Music Festival Comes to Ball State University! - Marcy Meyer and Laura Shue O'Hara

Ch 2. Revisiting Sexual Harassment in Academe: Using Feminist Ethical and Sensemaking Approaches for Analyzing Macrodiscourses and Micropractices of Sexual Harassment. - Patrice M. Buzzanell

Ch 3. Women, Men, and Changing Organizations: An Organizational Culture Examination of Gendered Experiences of Telecommuting. - Annika Hylmö

Ch 4. Commentary: Feminist Scholarship - Connie Bullis

Part II: Gendering Health

Ch 5. Women Cancer Survivors: Making Meaning of Chronic Illness, Disability, and Alternative Medical Practices. - Laura L. Ellingson

Ch 6. The Defining of Menopause - Kelly Quintanilla, Nada Frazier Cano, and Diana K. Ivy

Ch 7. Consuming Breasts: Our Breasts, Our Selves - Patty Sotirin

Ch. 8. Reframing Communication During Gynecological Exams: A Feminist Virtue Ethic of Care Perspective. - Maria Brann and Marifran Mattson

Ch 9. Commentary: Communication and Women's Health - Gary L. Kreps

Part III: Constructing Pedagogy

Ch. 10 Metaphor in the Classroom: Reframing Traditional and Alternative Uses of Language for Feminist Transformation. - Patrice M. Buzzanell

Ch 11. From Transgression to Transformation: Negotiating the Opportunities and Tensions of Engaged Pedagogy in the Feminist Organizational Communication Classroom - Marcy Meyer

Ch 12. Body Shape(ing) Discourse: Bakhtinian Intertextuality as a Tool for Studying Discourse And Relationships. - Terri L. Russ

Ch 13. Aggression in Intercultural Encounters: Reports by Male and Female Youth in an Ethnically Diverse School District. - Marjorie A. Jaasma

Ch 14. Commentary: Feminist Classrooms - Rich West

Part IV: Empowering Family

Ch 15. Entrepreneurial Mothers' Balance of Work and Family: Discursive Constructions of Time, Mothering, and Identity. - Paige Edley

Ch 16 Playground or Training Ground?: The Function of Talk in African American and European American Mother-Adolescent Daughter Dyads. - Barbara A. Penington and Lynn H. Turner

Ch 17 Masculinities and Violence Among Intimates: Stories About Male Abusers and Intervention Strategies. - Jenn Fink and Charles Tucker

Ch 18 Commentary: The Pastiche of Gender and Family Communication - Kathleen Galvin

Index

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