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Klappentext 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. Lana F. Rakow and Laura A. Wackwitz 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. 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 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 ...