ABSTRACT
This volume provides an extensive overview of current research on the complex relationships between communication and gender. Featuring a broad variety of entries written by leading and upcoming scholars, this edited volume 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 identities
• Visualizing gender
• Politics of gender
• Gendered contexts and strategies
• Gendered violence and communication
• Gendered advocacy in action
Within these sections central issues, debates and problems are examined, including: the ethics and politics of gender as identity, impacts of media and technology, legal and legislative battlegrounds over gender inequality and LGBTQ human rights, changing institutional contexts, recent research into communication and gendered violence, in addition to linking academic research on communication and gender to activism and advocacy beyond the academy
The Routledge Handbook to Gender and Communication will be an invaluable reference work for students and researchers in gender studies and communication studies, its international perspectives and the range of themes covered making it an essential and pragmatic pedagogical resource.
I: Gendered Lives and Identities 1. Power and Gender Identity in the Workplace 2. Identity Politics, Essentialist Feminisms, and Queer Imaginaries 3. Chicago Masculinities 4. Embodiment, Materiality, Affect 5. Narrating and Performing Gendered Lives 6. The Performance and Communication of Queer Identities 7. Queer Latinx Communication Studies 8. Gendered Lives 9. Quare Studies as Race Theory of Communicating Gender Identity II: Gendered Media and Technology 10. CMC in Online LGBTQ Groups 11. Controlling Images 12. The ‘Male Gaze’ In Visual Culture 13. White Western Feminisms in Global Media 14. De-Colonizing Feminism through Digital Labor 15. Misogyny and Resistance in Media Consumption 16. Latinx Feminisms in Film 17. Gender, Religion, and New Media in the Middle East III: The Politics of Gender 18. Gender and Nationalism 19. Gender, Law and Communication 20. Trans Politics 21. Gender in Political Rhetoric 22. National and International LGBTQ Legal Battles 23. Gender and Orientalism 24. Islamophobic Feminisms IV: Communicating Intersectionality and Identity/Difference 25. Masculinity and Queer Asian Performativity Online 26. Africana Womanist Approaches to Motherhood 27. Resisting White Supremacist Feminisms 28. Queer Families and Child-free Identities 29. Gender Fluidity in Indigenous Discourse 30. Challenging White Masculinities 31. Monstrous Materialities of Radical Embodiment V Gendered Contexts and Strategies 32. Sexuality in Male Dominated Organizations 33. Communication, Gender and Sports 34. Gendered Communication During Illness 35. MENA Research on Communication, Gender and Sexuality 36. African Women Journalists in Postcolonial Contexts 37. Gender and Communication in Religion/Faith Communities 38. Gender and Conflict Management in Strategies in Organizational Settings 39. Gender and Sexuality in Online Fan Cultures 40. Feminism/Womanism and Leadership Strategies VI Gendered Violence and Communication 41. Masculinities and Violence 42. Latinx Politics and Rape Cultures 43. #MeToo Media Narratives 44. Violence and Trans Bodies 45. Sexual Violence and Campus Visibility Politics 46. Global Social Media and Sexual Abuse 47. Gendered Violence in Indian Film 48. Marginalized Muslim Bodies in Gendered Violence 49. Symbolic Erasure as Semiotic Violence VII Advocacy in Action 50. Queer Praxis as Communicative Engagement 51. Transnational Feminism Advocacy 52. Representing Intersectionality in #BlackLivesMatter Activism 53. Gender and Disability Rights 54. Cosmopolitan Queer Digital Media Activism 55. Women’s Health Narratives in a Muslim Diaspora 56. Gendered Discussions about Health Decisions 57. International Reproductive Health and Catholic Activism 58. Critical Communication Pedagogy and Gender
