Rethinking Organizational and Managerial Communication from Feminist Perspectives

Patrice M. Buzzanell (Ph.D., Purdue University) returned to her alma mater as a professor in the Department of Communication at Purdue University where she earned her Ph.D. in organizational communication. Her research interests center on feminist organizational communication theorizing and the construction of gendered workplace identities, interactions, and structures, particularly as they relate to career processes and outcomes. She has published in Human Communication Research, Communication Monographs, Journal of Applied Communication Research, and other communication journals and edited books. For her edited book, Rethinking Organizational and Managerial Communication from Feminist Perspectives (SAGE, 2000), she received the Central States Communication Association's Theory Book Award in 2002. She also earned the W. Charles Redding Dissertation from the International Communication Association in 1988, and received some top paper awards. In addition to editing Management Communication Quarterly, she has served as chairperson of the Organizational Communication Division of ICA, secretary of the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association, as President of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender, and as a current editorial board member for eight journals and a handbook. For this and other work, she was awarded the Outstanding Member Award from her ICA division and the Alumnus of the Year Award from the School of Interpersonal Communication at Ohio University.

Preface - Patrice M. Buzzanell Introduction: In Medias Res - Patrice M. Buzzanell PART ONE: CONFRONTING OUR PAST Communication, Organization, and the Public Sphere: A Feminist Perspective - Dennis K. Mumby Between the Generalized and the Concrete Other: Approaching Organizational Ethics From Feminist Perspectives - Tanni Haas and Stanley Deetz Organizational Socialization: A Feminist Standpoint Approach - Connie Bullis and Karen Rohrbauck Stout Rethinking Negotiation: Feminist Views of Communication and Exchange - Linda L. Putnam and Deborah M. Kolb PART TWO: RETHINKING PRESENT PROCESSES Revisioning Control: A Feminist Critique of Disciplined Bodies - Angela Trethewey Walking the High Wire: Leadership Theorizing, Daily Acts, and Tensions - Marlene G. Fine and Patrice M. Buzzanell A Feminist Reframing of Stress: Rose's Story - Marifran Mattson, Robin Patric Clair, Pamela A. Chapman Sanger, and Adrianne Dennis Kunkel PART THREE: AUTHORING OUR FUTURE "Learning the Ropes": A Black Feminist Standpoint Analysis - Brenda J. Allen The Promise and Practice of the New Career and Social Contract: Illusions Exposed and Suggestions for Reform - Patrice M. Buzzanell Chaos Theory and the Glass Ceiling - Cindy Reuther and Gail T. Fairhurst CONCLUDING CHAPTER Dialoguing - Patrice M. Buzzanell References Index About the Contributors

"...a convincing and long overdue demonstration of the value of feminist perspectives for invigorating organizational communication studies." -- Patricia Sotirin "Buzzanell's edited book has a poststructural sensibility in its emphasis on dialogue, absent voices, and the open-ended, constructed nature of knowledge. . . . In summary, I would recommend this book highly. . . Buzzanell's reader would be a corrective for traditional texts used in communications, Master of Public Administration, and Master of Business Administration programs." * NATIONAL WOMEN'S STUDIES ASSOCIATION *