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Gender Communication Theories and Analyses
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Gender Communication Theories and Analyses
From Silence to Performance



September 2005 | 208 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Contemporary Gender Communication Theories and Analyses surveys the field of gender and communication with a particular focus on gender and communication theories and methods. How have theories about gender and communication evolved and been influenced by first-, second-, and third-wave feminisms? And similarly, how have feminist communication scholars been inspired by existing methods and aspired to generate their own? The goal of the text is to help readers develop analytic focus and knowledge about their underlying assumptions that gender communication scholars use in their work.

Features and benefits:

- applies theoretical and methodological lenses to contemporary cases, allowing readers to see gender and communcation theory work in action;

- presents a comprehensive introduction to particular feminist theories and methodologies;

- provides effective end-of-chapter cases and sample analyses that help readers see the kinds of questions and analyses that a particular theory and method bring into play;

- discusses contemporary research in gender and communication and expands on future directions for research.

 
Introduction
 
Acknowledgments
 
1. Three Waves of Feminism: From Suffragettes to Grrls
The First Feminist Wave: Votes for Women

 
The Second Feminist Wave: "The Personal Is Political"

 
The Third Feminist Wave: Transversal Politics

 
Our Own Situatedness: Transversity

 
 
2. Feminist Communication Theories
Structuralism and Feminist Communication Theories

 
Poststructuralism and Feminist Communication Theories

 
Conclusion

 
 
3. Feminist Communication Methodology
Structuralism and Methodology

 
Poststructuralism and Methodology

 
Conclusion

 
 
4. Sexist Discourse, Deficit and Dominance
From Deficit to Dominance

 
Situated Dominances

 
Case Study: Feminist Conversation Analysis (FCA)

 
 
5. Discourses of Difference and Identity
Gender, Discourse, and Articulation

 
Settings of Difference

 
Case Study: Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis (FCDA)

 
 
6. Gender and Performance
Gender, Performance, and Communication

 
Situated Performances

 
Case Study: Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis (FPDA)

 
 
Conclusion
From Silence to Performance

 
From Conversation Analysis to Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis

 
Toward Transitivity: What Does the Future Hold?

 
 
References
 
Index
 
About the Authors

"Gender Communication Theories and Analyses: From Silence to Performance is an innovative analysis of contemporary feminist communication theories and methods. The book is both a thought-provoking analysis of feminist scholarship and an inspiration to innovative theorizing on gender and communication. Overall, the authors have made an invaluable contribution to ongoing feminist scholarship. Their book brings together watershed ideas on feminist theorizing and methods in an elucidating and far reaching analysis of conceptual traditions and new directions in feminist communication studies. I highly recommend this book for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses and for anyone journeying into feminist theorizing."

Dr. Laura Prividera
East Carolina University

supplement to basic speech course

Miss Tammy Engle
Communication Studies Dept, Santa Rosa Junior Clg
October 1, 2014