Cruel and Reparative Possibilities of Failure

This edited collection brings together scholars in communication, gender, sexuality, performance, and media studies to share research on failure with an emphasis on communication and gender. Using multiple methodologies and theoretical frameworks, the chapters contribute to a deeper understanding of failure and its reparative possibilities.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Forced to disband: Counterpublic consummatory issues and queer failures
Crystal Stone
Chapter 2: Implicating failure: Corporeal commodification in the organization of donor milk
Sarah E. Jones
Chapter 3: Embracing failure in Netflix's BONDiNG: Misinformation about kink in season 1 addressed through character development in season 2
Jessica M. W. Kratzer
Stacie Meihaus Jankowski
Dakota Pannebecker
Nick Bliven
Chapter 4: The paradoxical corrective failures of That 90s Show: Reboots and Contemporary Nostalgia in the Age of Streaming Television
Michaela D.E. Meyer
Skyler M. Tolzien-Orr
Savannah J. Lambie
Chapter 5: Queer failures in the gender communication and sexual communication classroom
Michaela Frischherz
Michael Tristano Jr.
Chapter 6: Failing toward abolition: Embracing abolitionist principles in the college classroom
Jennifer Potter
Elyshia Aseltine
Chapter 7: Navigating failed systems: An autoethnographic account of documenting abuse and the call for trauma-informed approaches
Megan Alyssa Fletcher
Chapter 8: Triggered: Writing my way into consent culture
Danielle M. Stern
Chapter 9: Performing abject: Reclaiming the body and resignifying the abject in performance
Desirée D. Rowe
Chapter 10: The transformative power of failure in everyday organizing: Failure's irony
Alana Nicastro
Rachel E. Silverman
Patricia Geist-Martin
Patty Sotirin
Laura L. Ellingson
Melanie Bailey Mills

About the author

Edited by Jessica M. W. Kratzer and Desirée D. Rowe - Contributions by Elyshia Aseltine; Nick Bliven; Laura L. Ellingson; Megan Alyssa Fletcher; Michaela Frischherz; Patricia Geist-Martin; Stacie Meihaus Jankowski; Sarah E. Jones; Jessica M. W. Kratzer; S

Product details

• Authors: Jessica M W Rowe Kratzer, Jessica M. W. Rowe Kratzer
• Assisted by: Desirée D Rowe (Editor), Jessica M W Kratzer (Editor), Jessica M. W. Kratzer (Editor), Desirée D. Rowe (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2025
• EAN: 9781666963496
• ISBN: 978-1-66696-349-6
• No. of pages: 198
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / General, Communication Studies, Gay & Lesbian studies, Self-help, personal development and practical advice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, Gender studies: transgender & intersex