1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Communication
This volume provides an extensive overview of current research on the complex relationships between gender and communication. Featuring a broad variety of chapters written by leading and upcoming scholars, this edited collection uses diverse theoretical frameworks to provide insight into recent concerns regarding changing gender roles, representations, and resources in communication studies. Established research and new perspectives address vital themes in this comprehensive text, including the shifting politics of gender, ethical and technological trends in gendered media, and gender in daily life. Comprising 39 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into six thematic sections:
• Gendered lives and identities
• Visualizing gender
• The politics of gender
• Gendered contexts and strategies
• Gendered violence and communication
• Gender advocacy in action
These sections examine central issues, debates, and problems, including the ethics and politics of gender as identity, impacts of media and technology, legal and legislative battlegrounds for gender inequality and LGBTQ+ human rights, changing institutional contexts, and recent research on gender violence and communication. The final section links academic research on gender and communication to activism and advocacy beyond the academy.
The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Communication will be an invaluable reference work for students and researchers working at the intersections of gender studies and communication studies. Its international perspectives and the range of themes it covers make it an essential and pragmatic pedagogical resource.
Part I Gendered lives and identities
1 Performing Gender Complaint as Airport Activism, Or: Don’t Get Over It When It’s Not Over
Stacy Holman Jones and Anne Harris
2 Dense Particularities: Race, Spirituality, and Queer/Quare Intersectionalities
Bryant Keith Alexander
3 Gaysian Fabulosity: Quare(Ing) the Normal and Ordinary
Shinsuke Eguchi
4 Communication, Gender, and Career in MENA Countries: Navigating the Push and Pull of Empowerment and Exclusion
Astrid M. Villamil and Suzy D’Enbeau
5 Chicano Masculinities
Kostia Lennes
6 A New Materialist Framework for Activism in the Age of Mediatization: The Entanglement of Bodies, Objects, Images, and Affects
Mariam Betlemidze
Part II Visualizing gender
7 Interrogating the Awkward Black Girl: Beyond Controlling Images of Black Women in Televised Comedies
Kimberly R. Moffitt and Tammy Sanders Henderson
8 The Male Gaze in Visual Culture
Claire Sisco King
9 Vida: Anti-Colonial Queer and Feminist Web TV and the Gaze of Allyship
Carolyn Elerding
10 Body Image and Global Media
Jasmine Fardouly, Vani Kakar, and Phillippa C. Diedrichs
11 Blood, Bodies, and Shame: Indian Artists Combating Menstrual Stigma on Instagram
Marissa J. Doshi
12 Monstrous Erasure: Quare Femme (in)Visibility in Get Out
Bernadette Marie Calafell
13 Queer Aesthetics, Playful Politics, and Ethical Masculinities in Luca Guadagnino’s Filmic Adaptation of André Aciman’s Call Me By Your Name
J. Nautiyal
14 Feminist and Queer Arts Activism
Clare Johnson
Part III The Politics of Gender
15 Making Waves: Maxine Waters’s Black Feminist and Womanist Rebuke of Supremacist Hegemony
Tracey Owens Patton and Nancy Small
16 One Step Forward … Gender, Communication and the Fragility of Gender(ed) Political Progress
Michele L. Hammers, Nina M. Lozano, and Craig O. Rich
17 The Specter of Trans Bodies: Public and Political Discourse about "Bathroom Bills"
Kc Councilor
18 Research on Gender and Political Rhetoric: Masculinity, Ingenuity, and the Double Bind
Kristina Horn Sheeler, Serena Hawkins, and Eline Van Den Bossche
19 Resisting Orientalist/Islamophobic Feminisms: (Re)Framing the Politics of Difference
Fatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui and Shadee Abdi
20 Negative Spaces in the Triangle of Gender, Religion, and New Media: A Case Study of the Ultra-Orthodox Community in Israel
Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar
21 Invisible in/Humanity: Feminist Epistemic Ethics and Rhetorical Studies
Kundai Chirindo
Part IV Gendered Contexts and Strategies
22 Organizational Discourse and Sexuality in Male-Dominated Organizational Settings
Clifton Scott, Aly Stetyick, and Jaime Bochantin
23 Shifting Sands and Moving Goalposts: Communicating Gender in Sport
Kitrina Douglas and David Carless
24 Gender, Sexuality, and Health Communication During the Illness Experience
Kallia O. Wright and Kesha Morant Williams
25 Women First: Bumble™ as a Model for Managing Online Gendered Conflict
Sean Eddington and Patrice M. Buzzanell
26 Straight (White) Women Writing about Men Bonking? Complicating our Understanding of Gender and Sexuality in Fandom
Mel Stanfill
Part V Gendered Violence and Communication
27 Imaging Rape, Imagining Woman in Popular Indian Cinema: Victim, Vigilante, or Goddess?
Sunera Thobani
28 Speak Up, Sis: Black Women, Race, and News Coverage of the Me Too Movement
Tia C. M. Tyree
29 Digital Testimonios and Witnessing of Salma Hayek and America Ferrera’s Disclosures of Sexual Harassment and Assault
Raisa F. Alvarado and Michelle A. Holling
30 From Innocents to Experts: Queer and Trans of Color Interventions into #Metoo
Elena Elías Krell
31 Symbolic Erasure as Gendered Violence: The Link Between Verbal and Physical Harm
Kate Lockwood Harris
32 Sherlock Holmes and the Case for Toxic Masculinity
Ashley Morgan
Part VI Gender Advocacy in Action
33 Queer Praxis: The Daily Labors of Love and Agitation
Dustin Bradley Goltz and Jason Zingsheim
34 Communicating Gender Advocacy: Riding the Fourth Wave of Feminism
Sarah Jane Blithe and Mackenna Neal
35 The Oppositional Gaze As Spectacle: Feminist Visual Protest Movements in China
Nickesia S. Gordon and Yuhan Huang
36 Refusing Mastery, Mastering Refusal: Critical Communication Pedagogy and Gender
Benny Lemaster and Deanna L. Fassett
37 Gender Futurity at the Intersection of Black Lives Matter and Afrofuturism
Amber Johnson
38 Latinx Feminist Activism for the Safety of Women Journalists
Aimée Vega Montiel
39 Pushing Boundaries: Toward the Development of a Model for Transing Communication in (Inter)Cultural Contexts
Gust A. Yep, Sage E. Russo, and Jace Allen
Biography
Marnel Niles Goins (Ph.D., Howard University) is Interim Dean of the College of Sciences and Humanities and Professor of Communication at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia.
Joan Faber McAlister (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Media, & Social Change at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.
Bryant Keith Alexander (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University Carbondale) is Professor and Dean of the College of Communication and Fine Arts at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.
"A timely collection for those interested in the complexity of intersectionality and tired of the old white feminist binary "read" on gender and communication."
- Professor Dreama G. Moon, Ethnic Studies Advisory Council, Department of Communication, California State University
