Communicating gender diversity : a critical approach

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Author:

DeFrancisco, Victoria L. (Victoria Leto)

ISBN:

9781412925594

Personal Author:

DeFrancisco, Victoria L. (Victoria Leto)

Publication Information:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2007.

Physical Description:

xvii, 325 p. ; 26 cm.

Contents:

Ch. 1. Developing a critical gender/sex lens -- Ch. 2. Alternative approaches to understanding gender/sex -- Ch. 3. Gendered/sexed voices -- Ch. 4. Gendered/sexed bodies -- Ch. 5. Gendered/sexed language -- Ch. 6. An introduction to gender in social institutions -- Ch. 7. Family -- Ch. 8. Education -- Ch. 9. Work -- Ch. 10. Religion -- Ch. 11. Media -- Ch. 12. One last look through a critical gendered lens.

Abstract:

"Communicating Gender Diversity: A Critical Approach examines the variety of ways in which communication of and about gender enables and constrains people's intersectional identities. Authors Victoria Pruin DeFrancisco and Catherine Helen Palczewski place an emphasis on how communication facilitates how people do gender. Operating from a gender diversity perspective, Communicating Gender Diversity explores how gender is constructed through interpersonal and public discourse about and in the institutions of family, education, work, religion, and media."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Sex role.

Gender identity.

Communication -- Social aspects.

Communication -- Sex differences.

Sexism in language.

Added Author:

Palczewski, Catherine Helen.

Electronic Access:

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Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip077/2006103537.html

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The purpose behind Communicating Gender Diversity: A Critical Approach is not to provide any final conclusions about communicating gender. Because gender is a constantly evolving concept, both in terms of individuals′ gender identity development and the larger cultureÆs predominant notions of gender, such absolute claims are not possible. Instead, the intent is to better equip readers with tools with which they can examine, and make sense of, the intersections of communication and gender. The text covers the variety of ways in which communication of and about gender and sex enables and constrains people′s intersectional identities. The authors believe people are social actors and, as such, create meaning through their symbolic interactions. Thus, the book′s emphasis is not on how gender influences communication, but on how communication constitutes gender. They also believe that people are capable of being self-reflective about communication processes, and creative in generating new ways to play with symbols.