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Communicating gender diversity : a critical approach / Victoria Pruin DeFrancisco and Catherine Helen Palczewski.

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Online Access: Full Text (via SAGE)
Main Author: DeFrancisco, Victoria Pruin
Other Authors: Palczewski, Catherine Helen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles : Sage Publications, ©2007.
Subjects:
Sex role.
Gender identity.
Communication > Social aspects.
Communication > Sex differences.
Sexism in language.
Communication > Sex differences
Communication > Social aspects
Gender identity
Sex role
Sexism in language
Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Foundations
  • 1. Developing a critical gender/sex lens
  • Gender differences : a cultural obsession
  • A critical vocabulary or a new lens prescription
  • Intersectionality
  • Communication
  • Systems of hierarchy
  • Putting it all together
  • 2. Alternative approaches to understanding gender/sex
  • Biological approaches
  • Chromosomes
  • Hormones
  • Brain development
  • Rhetorical implications, historic
  • Rhetorical implications, contemporary
  • Psychological approaches
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Social learning
  • Cognitive development
  • Rhetorical implications, historic
  • Rhetorical implications, contemporary
  • Descriptive cultural approaches
  • Symbolic interactionism
  • Anthropology
  • Two-culture theory
  • Rhetorical implications, historic
  • Rhetorical implications, contemporary
  • Critical cultural approaches
  • Standpoint theory
  • Social constructionism
  • Communication strategies
  • Gender as performance
  • Multiracial and global feminisms
  • Queer theory
  • Post-structuralism
  • Rhetorical implications, historic
  • Rhetorical implications, contemporary
  • Conclusion
  • 3. Gendered/sexed voices
  • Constructing a critical gender/sex lens
  • Constructing gender/sex in communication
  • Gendered conversational styles
  • Cultural perceptions of gender/sex styles and speakers
  • Power and talk
  • Conclusion.
  • 4. Gendered/sexed bodies
  • Gender embodiment : why nonverbals matter
  • Power, not sex difference
  • Gender performativity
  • Objectification theory
  • Constructing a critical gender/sex lens
  • Components of nonverbal communication
  • Proxemics
  • Haptics
  • Eye contact
  • Body movement
  • Body adornment
  • Facial expressions
  • Nonverbal sensitivity and accuracy
  • Emotional expression
  • Gender as body performance
  • Attractiveness
  • Eating disorders
  • Refusing the command performance
  • Using norms against each other
  • Making norms visible
  • Overtly challenging norms
  • Revaluing the body
  • Conclusion
  • 5. Gendered/sexed language
  • Theories explaining the power of language
  • Linguistic relativity
  • Terministic screens
  • Framing
  • Language as power
  • Language can be used to oppress and subordinate
  • He/man language
  • Semantic derogation
  • Semantic imbalance
  • Semantic polarization and polar opposites
  • Marked and unmarked terms
  • Trivialization
  • Lack of vocabulary
  • The truncated passive
  • The falsely universal we
  • The de-verbing of woman
  • People, places, and topics of silence
  • Language as violence
  • Language as resistance
  • Talking back
  • Counterpublic spheres
  • Developing a new language
  • Resignification
  • Strategic essentialism and rhetorics of difference
  • Moving over
  • Verbal play
  • Conclusion.
  • pt. II. Institutions
  • 6. An introduction to gender in social institutions
  • What is an institution?
  • Institutional control and hegemony
  • Gender is a social institution
  • Institutionalized gendered/sexed violence
  • Part preview
  • 7. Family
  • Family as a social institution
  • Interlocking institutions
  • Family constructs (and constrains) gender
  • Research focuses on the nuclear family
  • Parent-child communication
  • Adult friends and lovers
  • Domestic violence
  • Emancipatory families
  • Conclusion
  • 8. Education
  • Education as a social institution
  • Interlocking institutions
  • It's not about sex difference
  • Education constructs (and constrains) gender
  • Teacher and administrator interactions
  • Sports
  • Educational materials and curricula
  • Higher education
  • Gender/sex gaps
  • Single-sex education
  • Peer pressure
  • Bullying and sexual harassment
  • Sexual violence on college campuses
  • Emancipatory education
  • Conclusion
  • 9. Work
  • Work as a social institution
  • Interlocking institutions
  • It's not about sex difference
  • Work constructs (and constrains) gender
  • Race, gender, and work : black women in work contexts
  • Class, race, gender/sex, and work : care work
  • Violence, gender/sex, and work : sexual harassment
  • Work as liberation and locations of empowerment in work
  • Conclusion.
  • 10. Religion
  • Religion as a social institution
  • Interlocking institutions
  • It's not about sex difference
  • Religion constructs (and constrains) gender
  • Rereading the history of women religious
  • Religion constructs masculinity : muscular Christianity
  • Religion as liberation and locations of empowerment in religion
  • Conclusion
  • 11. Media
  • Media as a social institution
  • Media economics
  • Media and power
  • Media and hegemony
  • Media polyvalence and oppositional readings
  • Interlocking institutions
  • It's not about sex difference
  • Differences among women
  • Similarities between women and men
  • Media construct (and constrain) gender
  • Media content and media effects
  • The gaze(s)
  • An oppositional gaze
  • Media as always liberatory and constraining
  • Gender is constructed and thus is always in flux
  • Resecuring genders' borders : "masculinity in crisis"
  • Progressive representations resecure traditional gender norms : Mr. Mom and Ellen
  • New technologies replicate old gender norms
  • Conclusion
  • 12. One last look through a critical gendered lens.

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