The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Communication
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xxvi, 686 pp.
Contains illustrations
Series: Handbooks to Gender and Sexuality
ISBN 978-0-367-62249-7 (pbk); 978-0-429-44831-7 (ebook); 978-0-429-82733-4 (pdf)
"Comprising 39 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into six general themes: Gendered identities; Visualizing gender; The politics of gender; Gendered contexts and strategies; Gendered violence and communication; Gendered advocacy in action These sections examine central issues, debates, and problems 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, and recent research into communication and gendered violence. The final section links academic research on communication and gender to activism and advocacy beyond the academy." (Publisher description)
I. GENDERED LIVES AND IDENTITIES, 1
1 Performing gender complaint as airport activism, or: don't get over it when it's not over / Stacy Holman Jones and Anne Harris, 5
2 Dense particularities: race, spirituality, and queer/quare intersectionalities / Bryant Keith Alexander, 18
3 Gaysian fabulosity: quare(ing) the normal and ordinary / Shinsuke Eguchi, 45
4 Communication, gender, and career in MENA countries: navigating the push and pull of empowerment and exclusion / Astrid M. Villamil and Suzy D'Enbeau, 59
5 Chicano masculinities / Kostia Lennes, 73
6 A new materialist framework for activism in the age of mediatization: the entanglement of bodies, objects, images, and affects / Mariam Betlemidze, 84
II. VISUALIZING GENDER, 101
7 Interrogating the awkward Black girl: beyond controlling images of Black women in televised comedies / Kimberly R. Moffitt and Tammy Sanders Henderson, 105
8 The male gaze in visual culture / Claire Sisco King, 120
9 Vida: anti-colonial queer and feminist Web TV and the gaze of allyship / Carolyn Elerding, 133
10 Body image and global media / Jasmine Fardouly, Vani Kakar, and Phillippa C. Diedrichs, 146
11 Blood, bodies, and shame: Indian artists combating menstrual stigma on Instagram / Marissa J. Doshi, 171
12 Monstrous erasure: quare femme (in)visibility in Get Out / Bernadette Marie Calafell, 191
13 Queer aesthetics, playful politics, and ethical masculinities in Luca Guadagnino's filmic adaptation of André Aciman's Call Me By Your Name / J. Nautiyal, 206
14 Feminist and queer arts activism / Clare Johnson, 223
III. THE POLITICS OF GENDER 239
15 Making waves: Maxine Waters's Black Feminist and Womanist rebuke of supremacist hegemony / Tracey Owens Patton and Nancy Small, 243
16 One step forward … gender, communication and the fragility of gender(ed) political progress / Michele L. Hammers, Nina M. Lozano, and Craig O. Rich, 259
17 The specter of trans bodies: public and political discourse about "Bathroom Bills" / KC Councilor
Contents, 274
18 Research on gender and political rhetoric: masculinity, ingenuity, and the double bind / Kristina Horn Sheeler, Serena Hawkins, and Eline van den Bossche, 289
19 Resisting Orientalist/Islamophobic feminisms: (re)framing the politics of difference / Fatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui and Shadee Abdi, 313
20 Negative spaces in the triangle of gender, religion, and new media: a case study of the Ultra-Orthodox community in Israel / Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar, 330
21 Invisible in/humanity: feminist epistemic ethics and rhetorical studies / Kundai Chirindo, 349
IV. GENDERED CONTEXTS AND STRATEGIES 361
22 Organizational discourse and sexuality in male-dominated organizational settings / Clifton Scott, Aly Stetyick, and Jaime Bochantin, 365
23 Shifting sands and moving goalposts: communicating gender in sport / Kitrina Douglas and David Carless, 389
24 Gender, sexuality, and health communication during the illness experience / Kallia O. Wright and Kesha Morant Williams, 406
25 Women first: Bumble™ as a model for managing online gendered conflict / Sean Eddington and Patrice M. Buzzanell, 427
26 Straight (white) women writing about men bonking? Complicating our understanding of gender and sexuality in fandom / Mel Stanfill, 446
V. GENDERED VIOLENCE AND COMMUNICATION, 459
27 Imaging rape, imagining woman in popular Indian cinema: victim, vigilante, or Goddess? / Sunera Thobani, 463
28 Speak Up, Sis: Black women, race, and news coverage of the Me Too movement / Tia C. M. Tyree, 475
29 Digital testimonios and witnessing of Salma Hayek and America Ferrera's disclosures of sexual harassment and assault / Raisa F. Alvarado and Michelle A. Holling, 495
30 From innocents to experts: queer and trans of color interventions into #MeToo / Elena Elías Krell, 510
31 Symbolic erasure as gendered violence: the link between verbal and physical harm / Kate Lockwood Harris, 521
32 Sherlock Holmes and the case for toxic masculinity / Ashley Morgan, 537
VI. GENDER ADVOCACY IN ACTION 553
33 Queer praxis: the daily labors of love and agitation / Dustin Bradley Goltz and Jason Zingsheim, 557
34 Communicating gender advocacy: riding the fourth wave of feminism / Sarah Jane Blithe and Mackenna Neal, 570
35 The oppositional gaze as spectacle: feminist visual protest movements in China / Nickesia S. Gordon and Yuhan Huang, 585
36 Refusing mastery, mastering refusal: critical communication pedagogy and gender / Benny LeMaster and Deanna L. Fassett, 600
37 Gender futurity at the intersection of Black Lives Matter and Afrofuturism / Amber Johnson, 616
38 Latinx feminist activism for the safety of women journalists / Aimée Vega Montiel, 629
39 Pushing boundaries: toward the development of a model for transing communication in (inter)cultural contexts / Gust A. Yep, Sage E. Russo, and Jace Allen, 639
1 Performing gender complaint as airport activism, or: don't get over it when it's not over / Stacy Holman Jones and Anne Harris, 5
2 Dense particularities: race, spirituality, and queer/quare intersectionalities / Bryant Keith Alexander, 18
3 Gaysian fabulosity: quare(ing) the normal and ordinary / Shinsuke Eguchi, 45
4 Communication, gender, and career in MENA countries: navigating the push and pull of empowerment and exclusion / Astrid M. Villamil and Suzy D'Enbeau, 59
5 Chicano masculinities / Kostia Lennes, 73
6 A new materialist framework for activism in the age of mediatization: the entanglement of bodies, objects, images, and affects / Mariam Betlemidze, 84
II. VISUALIZING GENDER, 101
7 Interrogating the awkward Black girl: beyond controlling images of Black women in televised comedies / Kimberly R. Moffitt and Tammy Sanders Henderson, 105
8 The male gaze in visual culture / Claire Sisco King, 120
9 Vida: anti-colonial queer and feminist Web TV and the gaze of allyship / Carolyn Elerding, 133
10 Body image and global media / Jasmine Fardouly, Vani Kakar, and Phillippa C. Diedrichs, 146
11 Blood, bodies, and shame: Indian artists combating menstrual stigma on Instagram / Marissa J. Doshi, 171
12 Monstrous erasure: quare femme (in)visibility in Get Out / Bernadette Marie Calafell, 191
13 Queer aesthetics, playful politics, and ethical masculinities in Luca Guadagnino's filmic adaptation of André Aciman's Call Me By Your Name / J. Nautiyal, 206
14 Feminist and queer arts activism / Clare Johnson, 223
III. THE POLITICS OF GENDER 239
15 Making waves: Maxine Waters's Black Feminist and Womanist rebuke of supremacist hegemony / Tracey Owens Patton and Nancy Small, 243
16 One step forward … gender, communication and the fragility of gender(ed) political progress / Michele L. Hammers, Nina M. Lozano, and Craig O. Rich, 259
17 The specter of trans bodies: public and political discourse about "Bathroom Bills" / KC Councilor
Contents, 274
18 Research on gender and political rhetoric: masculinity, ingenuity, and the double bind / Kristina Horn Sheeler, Serena Hawkins, and Eline van den Bossche, 289
19 Resisting Orientalist/Islamophobic feminisms: (re)framing the politics of difference / Fatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui and Shadee Abdi, 313
20 Negative spaces in the triangle of gender, religion, and new media: a case study of the Ultra-Orthodox community in Israel / Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar, 330
21 Invisible in/humanity: feminist epistemic ethics and rhetorical studies / Kundai Chirindo, 349
IV. GENDERED CONTEXTS AND STRATEGIES 361
22 Organizational discourse and sexuality in male-dominated organizational settings / Clifton Scott, Aly Stetyick, and Jaime Bochantin, 365
23 Shifting sands and moving goalposts: communicating gender in sport / Kitrina Douglas and David Carless, 389
24 Gender, sexuality, and health communication during the illness experience / Kallia O. Wright and Kesha Morant Williams, 406
25 Women first: Bumble™ as a model for managing online gendered conflict / Sean Eddington and Patrice M. Buzzanell, 427
26 Straight (white) women writing about men bonking? Complicating our understanding of gender and sexuality in fandom / Mel Stanfill, 446
V. GENDERED VIOLENCE AND COMMUNICATION, 459
27 Imaging rape, imagining woman in popular Indian cinema: victim, vigilante, or Goddess? / Sunera Thobani, 463
28 Speak Up, Sis: Black women, race, and news coverage of the Me Too movement / Tia C. M. Tyree, 475
29 Digital testimonios and witnessing of Salma Hayek and America Ferrera's disclosures of sexual harassment and assault / Raisa F. Alvarado and Michelle A. Holling, 495
30 From innocents to experts: queer and trans of color interventions into #MeToo / Elena Elías Krell, 510
31 Symbolic erasure as gendered violence: the link between verbal and physical harm / Kate Lockwood Harris, 521
32 Sherlock Holmes and the case for toxic masculinity / Ashley Morgan, 537
VI. GENDER ADVOCACY IN ACTION 553
33 Queer praxis: the daily labors of love and agitation / Dustin Bradley Goltz and Jason Zingsheim, 557
34 Communicating gender advocacy: riding the fourth wave of feminism / Sarah Jane Blithe and Mackenna Neal, 570
35 The oppositional gaze as spectacle: feminist visual protest movements in China / Nickesia S. Gordon and Yuhan Huang, 585
36 Refusing mastery, mastering refusal: critical communication pedagogy and gender / Benny LeMaster and Deanna L. Fassett, 600
37 Gender futurity at the intersection of Black Lives Matter and Afrofuturism / Amber Johnson, 616
38 Latinx feminist activism for the safety of women journalists / Aimée Vega Montiel, 629
39 Pushing boundaries: toward the development of a model for transing communication in (inter)cultural contexts / Gust A. Yep, Sage E. Russo, and Jace Allen, 639
