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FM-Dow-4973.qxd 6/14/2006 10:37 AM Page i The SAGE Handbook of Gender Communication and FM-Dow-4973.qxd 6/14/2006 10:37 AM Page ii FM-Dow-4973.qxd 6/14/2006 10:37 AM Page iii The SAGE Handbook of Gender CCoommmmuunniiccaattiioonn and EDITORS Bonnie J. Dow The University of Georgia Julia T. Wood The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill FM-Dow-4973.qxd 6/14/2006 10:37 AM Page iv Copyright © 2006 by Sage Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. For information: Sage Publications, Inc. 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks, California 91320 E-mail: [email protected] Sage Publications Ltd. 1 Oliver’s Yard 55 City Road London EC1Y 1SP United Kingdom Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd. B-42, Panchsheel Enclave Post Box 4109 New Delhi 110 017 India Printed in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The SAGE handbook of gender and communication / edited by Bonnie J. Dow, Julia T. Wood. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 1-4129-0423-4 (cloth) 1. Communication—Sex differences. I. Dow, Bonnie J. II. Wood, Julia T. P96.S48S34 2006 305.301′4—dc22 2006001824 This book is printed on acid-free paper. 06 0 7 0 8 0 9 1 0 1 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Acquiring Editor: Todd R. Armstrong Editorial Assistant: Camille Herrera Project Editor: Astrid Virding Copyeditor: Tom Lacey Typesetter: C&M Digitals (P) Ltd. Indexer: Paul Corrigton Cover Designer: Candice Harman FM-Dow-4973.qxd 6/14/2006 10:37 AM Page v CONTENTS The Evolution of Gender and Communication Research: Intersections of Theory, Politics, and Scholarship ix Bonnie J. Dow and Julia T. Wood PART I: GENDER AND COMMUNICATION IN INTERPERSONAL CONTEXTS Introduction 1 Julia T. Wood 1. Performing Gender and Interpersonal Communication Research 9 Elizabeth Bell and Daniel Blaeuer 2. Gendered Communication in Dating Relationships 25 Sandra Metts 3. Gender and Family Interaction: Dress Rehearsal for an Improvisation? 41 Kathleen M. Galvin 4. Communication and Gender Among Adult Friends 57 Michael Monsour 5. Gendered Communication and Intimate Partner Violence 71 Michael P. Johnson PART II: GENDER AND COMMUNICATION IN ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXTS Introduction 89 Dennis K. Mumby FM-Dow-4973.qxd 6/14/2006 10:37 AM Page vi 6. Back to Work: Sights/Sites of Difference in Gender and Organizational Communication Studies 97 Karen Lee Ashcraft 7. Constructing Embodied Organizational Identities: Commodifying, Securing, and Servicing Professional Bodies 123 Angela Trethewey, Cliff Scott, and Marianne LeGreco 8. Love, Sex, and Tech in the Global Workplace 143 Nikki C. Townsley 9. Gendered Stories of Career: Unfolding Discourses of Time, Space, and Identity 161 Patrice M. Buzzanell and Kristen Lucas PART III: GENDER AND COMMUNICATION IN RHETORICAL CONTEXTS Introduction 179 Karlyn Kohrs Campbell 10. Gender and Public Address 185 Karlyn Kohrs Campbell and Zornitsa Keremidchieva 11. Gender in Political Communication Research: The Problem With Having No Name 201 Vanessa B. Beasley 12. The Intersections of Race and Gender in Rhetorical Theory and Praxis 215 Jacqueline Bacon 13. Rhetoric and Gender in Greco-Roman Theorizing 231 Cheryl Glenn and Rosalyn Collings Eves 14. A Vexing Relationship: Gender and Contemporary Rhetorical Theory 247 Nathan Stormer PART IV: GENDER AND COMMUNICATION IN MEDIATED CONTEXTS Introduction 263 Bonnie J. Dow 15. Feminism and/in Mass Media 273 Angharad N. Valdivia and Sarah Projansky FM-Dow-4973.qxd 6/14/2006 10:37 AM Page vii 16. Gender, Race, and Media Representation 297 Dwight E. Brooks and Lisa P. Hébert 17. Critical Studies in Gender/Sexuality and Media 319 John M. Sloop 18. Gendered Violence and Mass Media Representation 335 Lisa M. Cuklanz 19. Gender and New Media 355 Mia Consalvo PART V: GENDER AND COMMUNICATION IN INTERCULTURAL AND GLOBAL CONTEXTS Introduction 371 Fern L. Johnson 20. Gender With/out Borders: Discursive Dynamics of Gender, Race, and Culture 379 Lisa A. Flores 21. Negotiating Boundaries, Crossing Borders: The Language of Black Women’s Intercultural Encounters 397 Marsha Houston and Karla D. Scott 22. Transgressing Gender in Discourses Across Cultures 415 Fern L. Johnson 23. Globalizing Gender Studies in Communication 433 Radha S. Hegde Author Index 451 Subject Index 457 About the Editors 473 About the Contributors 475 FM-Dow-4973.qxd 6/14/2006 10:37 AM Page viii FM-Dow-4973.qxd 6/14/2006 10:37 AM Page ix THE EVOLUTION OF GENDER AND COMMUNICATION RESEARCH Intersections of Theory, Politics, and Scholarship � I n 1975 one of us—Julia— took her first faculty position. As part of familiarizing herself with her new professional home, she visited the campus bookstore. There she found an impressive inventory of schol arly books, as would be expected at a research university. The newest category in the bookstore was women’s studies. The entire section devoted to it was half a shelf in a bookcase of 6-foot shelves. Until the 1970s there were no courses in and no textbooks about gender and communication. San Diego State University had founded the first women’s studies program in 1969, but such programs were still sparse in the early 1970s (Boxer, 1998). Relevant academic publications were rare, although then as now popular psychology publications on the sexes proliferated. Gender was simply not recognized as a distinct concept three and a half decades ago. The political and philosophical changes that were launched in the 1970s and the conceptual trajectory that leads to this Handbook of Gender and Communication have their origins in the second wave of U.S. feminism that began in the mid-1960s. This book is not a handbook of feminism and communication, and the study of gender is distinct from ◆ ix
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