Gender Communication Theories and Analyses

Charlotte Krolokke (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 Sorensen (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.

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

"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 Krolokke and Scott Sorensen 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. Krolokke and Scott Sorensen 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