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This edited collection synthesizes existing transgender communication scholarship, contributes original research, and sets an agenda for future work in human communication, media studies, and rhetorical studies. It is unique in its expansive coverage of the field of communication and the specific focus on transgender lives.
List of contents
Introduction, Leland G. Spencer IV
Part I: Human Communication
Chapter 1: Health Communication: Patient-Centered Communication: The Experiences of Transgender Adults, Kami Kosenko, Lance Rintamaki, and Kathleen Maness
Chapter 2: Organizational Communication: The Workplace Socialization of Gender Identity: A Phenomenological Exploration of Being Transgender at Work, Jenny Dixon
Chapter 3: Interpersonal Communication: Trans Interpersonal Support Needs, matthew heinz
Chapter 4: Family Communication: Families' Experiences with Transgender Identity and Transition: A Family Stress Perspective, Kristen M. Norwood and Pamela J. Lannutti
Chapter 5: Intercultural Communication: Pushing Boundaries: Toward the Development of a Model for Transing Communication in (Inter)cultural Contexts, Gust A. Yep, Sage E. Russo, and Jace Allen
Part II: Media
Chapter 6: News: What's in a Name? Transgender Identity, Metareporting and the Misgendering of Chelsea Manning, Jamie C. Capuzza
Chapter 7: Television: The Provisional Acknowledgement of Identity Claims in Televised Documentary, E. Tristan Booth
Chapter 8: Film: Becoming One of the Girls/Guys: Distancing Transgender Representations in Popular Film Comedies, Lucy J. Miller
Chapter 9: Visual Communication: From Abomination to Indifference: A Visual Analysis of Transgender Stereotypes in the Media, Paul Martin Lester
Chapter 10: Social Media: Fleshy Metamorphosis: Temporal Pedagogies of Transsexual Counterpublics, Joshua Trey Barnett
Part III: Public and Rhetorical Communication
Chapter 11: Language: Traversing the Transcape: A Brief Etymological History of Trans* Terminology, Mary Alice Adams
Chapter 12: Religious Discourse: Coming Out, Bringing Out: God's Love, Transgender Identity, and Difference, Leland G. Spencer IV
Chapter 13: Legal Discourse: The Trans-Exclusive Archives of U.S. Capital Punishment Rhetoric, Peter Odell Campbell and Cory Holding
Chapter 14: Public Memory: Historical Trans-cription: Struggling with Memory in Paris Is Burning, Thomas R. Dunn
About the author
Leland G. Spencer is assistant professor in the Integrative Studies Department at Miami University.
Jamie C. Capuzza is professor in the Department of Communication and director of the Gender Studies Program at the University of Mount Union.
Summary
This edited collection synthesizes existing transgender communication scholarship, contributes original research, and sets an agenda for future work in human communication, media studies, and rhetorical studies. It is unique in its expansive coverage of the field of communication and the specific focus on transgender lives.
