Transgender Communication Studies: Histories, Trends, and Trajectories brings scholarship in transgender studies to the forefront of the communication discipline. Leland Spencer and Jamie Capuzza provide a broad foundation that documents the evolution of transgender communication studies and challenges fundamental assumptions about the relationship between communication and identity. The contributors explore the political conditions these practices create for persons across the spectrum of gender identities and sexual orientations, placing them in the subdisciplines of human communication, media, and public and rhetorical communication. The collection also looks to the future of transgender research with suggestions and directives for continued work. This comprehensive study inspires critical thinking about gender identity and transgender lives from within the vocabularies and methodologies of communication studies.
Introduction, Leland G. Spencer IV Part I: Human Communication Chapter 1: Health Communication: Patient-Centered Communication: The Experiences of Transgender Adults, Kami Kosenko, Lance Rintamaki, and Kathleen Maness Chapter 2: Organizational Communication: The Workplace Socialization of Gender Identity: A Phenomenological Exploration of Being Transgender at Work, Jenny Dixon Chapter 3: Interpersonal Communication: Trans Interpersonal Support Needs, matthew heinz Chapter 4: Family Communication: Families' Experiences with Transgender Identity and Transition: A Family Stress Perspective, Kristen M. Norwood and Pamela J. Lannutti Chapter 5: Intercultural Communication: Pushing Boundaries: Toward the Development of a Model for Transing Communication in (Inter)cultural Contexts, Gust A. Yep, Sage E. Russo, and Jace Allen Part II: Media Chapter 6: News: What's in a Name? Transgender Identity, Metareporting and the Misgendering of Chelsea Manning, Jamie C. Capuzza Chapter 7: Television: The Provisional Acknowledgement of Identity Claims in Televised Documentary, E. Tristan Booth Chapter 8: Film: Becoming One of the Girls/Guys: Distancing Transgender Representations in Popular Film Comedies, Lucy J. Miller Chapter 9: Visual Communication: From Abomination to Indifference: A Visual Analysis of Transgender Stereotypes in the Media, Paul Martin Lester Chapter 10: Social Media: Fleshy Metamorphosis: Temporal Pedagogies of Transsexual Counterpublics, Joshua Trey Barnett Part III: Public and Rhetorical Communication Chapter 11: Language: Traversing the Transcape: A Brief Etymological History of Trans* Terminology, Mary Alice Adams Chapter 12: Religious Discourse: Coming Out, Bringing Out: God's Love, Transgender Identity, and Difference, Leland G. Spencer IV Chapter 13: Legal Discourse: The Trans-Exclusive Archives of U.S. Capital Punishment Rhetoric, Peter Odell Campbell and Cory Holding Chapter 14: Public Memory: Historical Trans-cription: Struggling with Memory in Paris Is Burning, Thomas R. Dunn
