Gender in Applied Communication Contexts

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.   Features of this text include: Extensive use of narrative. The situations the authors describe in these chapters are those confronted by students, scholars, and family members and friends in daily life: telecommuting, work/life balance, sexual harassment, cancer, disability, AIDS, verbal and nonverbal communication applications in learning. Applied communication approach: The text applies feminist theory to analysis and construction of realistic interventions for achieving greater workplace equity, enhanced health outcomes for women, and more inclusive and thought-provoking classroom (and training workshop) practices. Strong framing pedagogy. In each Part introduction, top scholars in that area discuss what is theoretically and pragmatically significant about the Part and how the ideas in the chapters might be extended. Original, cutting-edge academic work. All of the chapters in this text are original theoretical contributions that have not been published elsewhere, giving students access to the most contemporary thinking and research in the field.   While this text spans the diverse landscape of communication contexts, the central theme of feminist theory praxis makes it appropriate for a number of different courses. 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 About the Editors About the Contributors