Feminist communication theory : selections in context /

Feminist communication theory : selections in context / Lana F. Rakow, Laura A. Wackwitz, editors. - viii, 280 pages ; 27 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Feminist communication theory : an introduction / Difference in feminist communication theory / Who is your mother? : red roots of white feminism / The necessity of differences : constructing a positive category of women / Reconciling equality to difference : caring (f)or justice for people with disabilities / Becoming post colonial : African women changing the meaning of citizenship / On the logic of pluralist feminism / Voice in feminist communication theory / "The grace of form" : class unconsciousness and an American writer / "For every gesture of loyalty, there doesn't have to be a betrayal" : Asian American criticism and the politics of locality / Speaking the corn into being / Touching the air : the cultural force of women in Chile / Love of the other / Representation in feminist communication theory / Real and imagined women : politics and/or representation / Negative images : towards a black feminist cultural criticism / The technology of gender / Images, ideology, and women of color / Democracy without women is no democracy : women's struggles in postcommunist Russia / Laura A. Wackwitz and Lana F. Rakow -- Lana F. Rakow and Laura A. Wackwitz -- Paula Gunn Allen -- Marilyn Frye -- Anita Silvers -- Patricia McFadden -- Maria C. Lugones -- Lana F. Rakow and Laura A. Wackwitz -- Linda McCarriston -- Leslie Bow -- Diane Glancy -- Catherine M. Boyle -- Luce Irigaray -- Lana F. Rakow and Laura A. Wackwitz -- Rajeswari Sunder Rajan -- Michelle Wallace -- Teresa de Lauretis -- Leith Mullings -- Elizabeth Waters and Anastasia Posadskaya. Reading 1. Reading 2. Reading 3. Reading 4. Reading 5. Reading 6. Reading 7. Reading 8. Reading 9. Reading 10. Reading 11. Reading 12. Reading 13. Reading 14. Reading 15.

"Feminist Communication Theory is a book of and for feminist communication theorists. The authors help individuals understand the human condition, they name personal experiences and engage these experiences through storytelling, and they give useful strategies for achieving justice. Lana F. Rakow and Laura A. Wackwitz examine the work of feminist theorists who have challenged traditional communication theory over the past two decades." "Feminist Communication Theory is designed for undergraduate and graduate courses in feminist communication, gender and communication, communication theory, speech, rhetoric, and mass communication. The book will also be of interest to feminist scholars in a variety of disciplines, as well as students and scholars in women's studies and cultural studies."--BOOK JACKET.

0761919791 9780761919797 0761919805 9780761919803

2004009248


Feminist theory.
Communication criticism

HQ1190 / .F4429 2004

305.4201

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