ABSTRACT
This volume provides an extensive overview of current research on the complex relationships between gender and communication. Featuring a broad variety of chapters written by leading and upcoming scholars, this edited collection uses diverse theoretical frameworks to provide insight into recent concerns regarding changing gender roles, representations, and resources in communication studies. Established research and new perspectives address vital themes in this comprehensive text, including the shifting politics of gender, ethical and technological trends in gendered media, and gender in daily life. Comprising 39 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into six thematic sections:
• Gendered lives and identities
• Visualizing gender
• The politics of gender
• Gendered contexts and strategies
• Gendered violence and communication
• Gender 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 for gender inequality and LGBTQ+ human rights, changing institutional contexts, and recent research on gender violence and communication. The final section links academic research on gender and communication to activism and advocacy beyond the academy.
The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Communication will be an invaluable reference work for students and researchers working at the intersections of gender studies and communication studies. Its international perspectives and the range of themes it covers make it an essential and pragmatic pedagogical resource.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|100 pages
Gendered lives and identities
chapter 1|13 pages
Performing Gender Complaint as Airport Activism
chapter 4|14 pages
Communication, Gender, and Career in Mena Countries
chapter 6|17 pages
A New Materialist Framework for Activism in the Age of Mediatization
part II|138 pages
Visualizing gender
chapter 7|15 pages
Interrogating the Awkward Black Girl
part III|122 pages
The politics of gender
chapter 15|16 pages
Making Waves
chapter 16|15 pages
One Step Forward …
chapter 17|15 pages
The Specter of Trans Bodies
chapter 18|24 pages
Research on Gender and Political Rhetoric
chapter 19|17 pages
Resisting Orientalist/Islamophobic Feminisms
chapter 20|19 pages
Negative Spaces in the Triangle of Gender, Religion, and New Media
part IV|98 pages
Gendered contexts and strategies
chapter 26|13 pages
Straight (White) Women Writing About Men Bonking?
part V|94 pages
Gendered violence and communication
chapter 27|12 pages
Imaging Rape, Imagining Woman in Popular Indian Cinema
part VI|112 pages
Gender advocacy in action