Introduction
Acknowledgments
1. Three Waves of Feminism: From Suffragettes to Grrls
The First Feminist Wave: Votes for Women
The Second Feminist Wave: "The Personal Is Political"
The Third Feminist Wave: Transversal Politics
Our Own Situatedness: Transversity
2. Feminist Communication Theories
Structuralism and Feminist Communication Theories
Poststructuralism and Feminist Communication Theories
Conclusion
3. Feminist Communication Methodology
Structuralism and Methodology
Poststructuralism and Methodology
Conclusion
4. Sexist Discourse, Deficit and Dominance
From Deficit to Dominance
Situated Dominances
Case Study: Feminist Conversation Analysis (FCA)
5. Discourses of Difference and Identity
Gender, Discourse, and Articulation
Settings of Difference
Case Study: Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis (FCDA)
6. Gender and Performance
Gender, Performance, and Communication
Situated Performances
Case Study: Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis
(FPDA)
Conclusion
From Silence to Performance
From Conversation Analysis to Poststructuralist Discourse
Analysis
Toward Transitivity: What Does the Future Hold?
References
Index
About the Authors
Charlotte Kroløkke (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; M.A., University of North Dakota, Grand Forks; B.A., Syddansk Universitet [Odense Danmark]) is Assistant Professor at the Center for Cultural Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. She has worked especially within the fields of computer-mediated communication and third-wave feminist rhetoric on the Internet. She is a member of U.S. and Danish gender and communication associations and a board member of the Danish Gender Studies Library in Copenhagen, Denmark. Anne Scott Sørensen (Ph.D., University of Southern Denmark; M.A., Aarhus University; B.A., Royal School of Library & Information Science) is Associate Professor and Head of the Center for Cultural Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. She has written extensively on gendered speech communities from the salons in Europe in the 18th – 20th centuries to the online communities of young people in the 21st century. She is Head of the Danish Network for Cultural Studies and a board member of the International Association of Cultural Studies.
“The book presents some ongoing struggles and tensions in feminist
work as researchers and theorists carve niches, expand knowledge,
and strive for legitimacy in the academy…This is a book to which I
am going to return again and again because of its remarkable
synthesis of past and present feminist communication work as well
as its look toward the future. The examples throughout are vivid
and compelling and the primary focus on the performance lens offers
much to identity, cultural, and political communication and
feminist studies. It is an excellent resource or springboard for
future scholarship as well as a riveting and coherent analysis of
scholarship that can challenge advanced students in feminist and
communication studies courses. My congratulations to Kroløkke and
Scott Sørensen for authoring such an interesting and needed
book.”
--Patrice M. Buzzanell, Purdue University
*Patrice M. Buzzanell*
“Fresh, sophisticated, and rigorous, Gender Communication Theories
and Analyses brings gender and communication studies into the
‘third wave’ of feminism and the new millennium of communication
studies. Kroløkke and Scott Sørensen present an able and insightful
guide to the diverse and changing ways that feminist scholars in
communication, linguistics, and cultural studies have theorized and
researched gender communication as dominance, identity and
difference, and performance. The text’s innovative format links
theory to research methodologies illustrated by case studies of
face-to-face and computer-mediated communication. This book offers
rich possibilities as a foundational text in advanced courses on
gender and communication and as a valuable resource for
researchers--we have been waiting for this
book.”
----Kristin M. Langellier, University of Maine
*Kristin M. Langellier*
"Gender Communication Theories and Analyses: From Silence to
Performance is an innovative analysis of contemporary feminist
communication theories and methods. The book is both a
thought-provoking analysis of feminist scholarship and an
inspiration to innovative theorizing on gender and communication.
Overall, the authors have made an invaluable contribution to
ongoing feminist scholarship. Their book brings together watershed
ideas on feminist theorizing and methods in an elucidating and
far reaching analysis of conceptual traditions and new directions
in feminist communication studies. I highly recommend this book for
advanced undergraduate and graduate courses and for anyone
journeying into feminist theorizing."
*Dr. Laura Prividera*
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