Feminist Communication Theory - Selections in Context

Klappentext `This is a remarkable book that embraces the challenge of rethinking communication theory. Much more inclusive than most communication volumes, this guidebook offers a rich diversity of voices, along with a conceptual framework for remaking communication theory. Illuminating, innovative, eloquent-and transforming' - Cheris Kramarae, University of Oregon `This is a book not only of and for feminist communication theory, but of and for feminists. After a preface that marks and remarks in creative ways how the personal is political, Rakow and Wackwitz offer a compelling account of the need and potential of feminist theorizing for social and structural transformation. The collection represents a range of experiences, problems, voices, and thus will be useful to scholars, students, and activists' - Linda Steiner, Rutgers University Feminist Communication Theory is a book `of' and `for' feminist communication theorists, providing the potential to help individuals understand the human condition, name personal experiences and engage these experiences through storytelling, and give useful strategies for achieving justice. The authors examine the work of feminist theorists over the past two decades who have challenged traditional communication theory, contributing to the development of feminist communication theory by identifying its important contours, shortcomings, and promise. Arguing that feminist communication theory must address theories of gender, communication, and social change, the authors describe feminist communication theory as explanatory, political, polyvocal, and transformative. The book is constructed around the three key concepts of difference, voice, and representation to reflect on how feminist theory reshapes our thinking about gender and communication. Feminist Communication Theory represents a variety of voices from different theoretical, cultural, and geographic perspectives to illustrate the complex challenge of constructing new theoretical positions. Key Features - Explores key works and issues of feminist theory relevant to gender and communication - Examines a broad range, well beyond conventional wisdom, of women's perspectives and experiences - Provides tools to develop the theoretical potential of both feminist and communication theory Feminist Communication Theory is designed for undergraduate and graduate courses on feminist communication, gender and communication, communication theory, speech, rhetoric, and mass communication. The book will also be of interest to feminist scholars in a variety of disciplines, as well as students and scholars in Women's Studies and Cultural Studies. Zusammenfassung Examines the work of feminist theorists who have challenged traditional communication theory! contributing to the development of feminist communication theory by identifying its important contours! shortcomings! and promise. This book argues that feminist communication theory must address theories of gender! communication! and social change. Inhaltsverzeichnis Feminist Communication Theory: An Introduction Part 1: Difference Difference in Feminist Communication Theory Who is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism - Paula Gunn Allen The Necessity of Differences: Constructing a Positive Category of Women - Marilyn Frye Reconciling Equality to Difference: Caring (F)or Justice for People with Disabilities - Anita Silvers Becoming Post Colonial: African Women Changing the Meaning of Citizenship - Patricia McFadden On the Logic of Pluralist Feminism - Maria C. Lugones Part 2: Voice Voice in the Feminist Communication Theory "The Grace of Form": Class Consciousness and an American Writer - Linda McCarriston "For Every Gesture of Loyalty, There Doesn¿t Have to be a Betrayl": Asian American Criticism and the Po...

List of contents

Feminist Communication Theory: An Introduction
Part 1: Difference
Difference in Feminist Communication Theory
Who is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism - Paula Gunn Allen
The Necessity of Differences: Constructing a Positive Category of Women - Marilyn Frye
Reconciling Equality to Difference: Caring (F)or Justice for People with Disabilities - Anita Silvers
Becoming Post Colonial: African Women Changing the Meaning of Citizenship - Patricia McFadden
On the Logic of Pluralist Feminism - Maria C. Lugones
Part 2: Voice
Voice in the Feminist Communication Theory
"The Grace of Form": Class Consciousness and an American Writer - Linda McCarriston
"For Every Gesture of Loyalty, There Doesn't Have to be a Betrayl": Asian American Criticism and the Politics of Locality - Leslie Bow
Speaking the Corn into Being - Diane Glancy
Touching the Air: The Cultural Force of Women in Chile - Catherine M. Boyle
Love of the Other - Luce Irigarary
Part 3: Representation
Representation in Feminist Communication Theory
Real and Imagined Women: Politics and/of Representation - Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Negative Images: Towards a Black Feminist Cultural Criticism - Michelle Wallace
The Technology of Gender - Teresa de Lauretis
Images, Ideology, and Women of Color - Leith Mullings
Democracy Without Women is No Democracy: Women's Struggles in Postcommunist Russia - Elizabeth Waters & Anastasia Posadskaya
Index

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"This is a remarkable book that embraces the challenge of rethinking communication theory. Much more inclusive than most communication volumes, this guidebook offers a rich diversity of voices, along with a conceptual framework for remaking communication theory. Illuminating, innovative, eloquent-and transforming."
Cheris Kramarae 20040623

Product details

• Authors: Lana F Rakow, Lana F F Rakow, Lana F. Rakow, Lana F. Wackwitz Rakow, Laura A Wackwitz, Laura A a Wackwitz, Laura A. Wackwitz
• Assisted by: Lana F. Rakow (Editor), Laura A. Wackwitz (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.10.2004
• EAN: 9780761919803
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-1980-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories