The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Communication: (Routledge Handbooks of Gender and Sexuality)

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 Gendered Lives and Identities 1 Performing Gender Complaint as Airport Activism, Or: Don’t Get Over It When It’s Not Over 2 Dense Particularities: Race, Spirituality, and Queer/Quare Intersectionalities 3 Gaysian Fabulosity: Quare(Ing) the Normal and Ordinary 4 Communication, Gender, and Career in MENA Countries: Navigating the Push and Pull of Empowerment and Exclusion 5 Chicano Masculinities 6 A New Materialist Framework for Activism in the Age of Mediatization: The Entanglement of Bodies, Objects, Images, and Affects Part II Visualizing Gender 7 Interrogating the Awkward Black Girl: Beyond Controlling Images of Black Women in Televised Comedies 8 The Male Gaze in Visual Culture 9 Vida: Anti-Colonial Queer and Feminist Web TV and the Gaze of Allyship 10 Body Image and Global Media 11 Blood, Bodies, and Shame: Indian Artists Combating Menstrual Stigma on Instagram 12 Monstrous Erasure: Quare Femme (in)Visibility in Get Out 13 Queer Aesthetics, Playful Politics, and Ethical Masculinities in Luca Guadagnino’s Filmic Adaptation of André Aciman’s Call Me By Your Name 14 Feminist and Queer Arts Activism Part III The Politics of Gender 15 Making Waves: Maxine Waters’s Black Feminist and Womanist Rebuke of Supremacist Hegemony 16 One Step Forward … Gender, Communication and the Fragility of Gender(ed) Political Progress 17 The Specter of Trans Bodies: Public and Political Discourse about "Bathroom Bills" 18 Research on Gender and Political Rhetoric: Masculinity, Ingenuity, and the Double Bind 19 Resisting Orientalist/Islamophobic Feminisms: (Re)Framing the Politics of Difference 20 Negative Spaces in the Triangle of Gender, Religion, and New Media: A Case Study of the Ultra-Orthodox Community in Israel 21 Invisible in/Humanity: Feminist Epistemic Ethics and Rhetorical Studies Part IV Gendered Contexts and Strategies 22 Organizational Discourse and Sexuality in Male-Dominated Organizational Settings 23 Shifting Sands and Moving Goalposts: Communicating Gender in Sport 24 Gender, Sexuality, and Health Communication During the Illness Experience 25 Women First: Bumble™ as a Model for Managing Online Gendered Conflict 26 Straight (White) Women Writing about Men Bonking? Complicating our Understanding of Gender and Sexuality in Fandom Part V Gendered Violence and Communication 27 Imaging Rape, Imagining Woman in Popular Indian Cinema: Victim, Vigilante, or Goddess? 28 Speak Up, Sis: Black Women, Race, and News Coverage of the Me Too Movement 29 Digital Testimonios and Witnessing of Salma Hayek and America Ferrera’s Disclosures of Sexual Harassment and Assault 30 From Innocents to Experts: Queer and Trans of Color Interventions into #Metoo 31 Symbolic Erasure as Gendered Violence: The Link Between Verbal and Physical Harm 32 Sherlock Holmes and the Case for Toxic Masculinity Part VI Gender Advocacy in Action 33 Queer Praxis: The Daily Labors of Love and Agitation 34 Communicating Gender Advocacy: Riding the Fourth Wave of Feminism 35 The Oppositional Gaze As Spectacle: Feminist Visual Protest Movements in China 36 Refusing Mastery, Mastering Refusal: Critical Communication Pedagogy and Gender 37 Gender Futurity at the Intersection of Black Lives Matter and Afrofuturism 38 Latinx Feminist Activism for the Safety of Women Journalists 39 Pushing Boundaries: Toward the Development of a Model for Transing Communication in (Inter)Cultural Contexts

About the Author :
Marnel Niles Goins (Ph.D., Howard University) is Interim Dean of the College of Sciences and Humanities and Professor of Communication at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. Joan Faber McAlister (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Media, & Social Change at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Bryant Keith Alexander (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University Carbondale) is Professor and Dean of the College of Communication and Fine Arts at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.

Review :
"A timely collection for those interested in the complexity of intersectionality and tired of the old white feminist binary "read" on gender and communication." - Professor Dreama G. Moon, Ethnic Studies Advisory Council, Department of Communication, California State University