Authors: Julia T. Wood
ISBN-13: 9780495794165, ISBN-10: 0495794163
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Date Published: January 2010
Edition: 9th Edition
Julia T. Wood is the Lineberger Professor of Humanities and a professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches courses and conducts research on gender, communication, culture, and communication in personal relationships. Dr. Wood has authored seventeen books and edited nine others. In addition, she has published more than eighty articles and book chapters, and she has won twelve awards for undergraduate teaching and thirteen awards for her scholarship. She received her B.A. from North Carolina State University, her M.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University.
This text introduces undergraduates to the ways in which gender images of masculinity and femininity affect communication and the way we live. It reviews theories and research on relationships among gender, culture, and communication, overviews the history of women's and men's movements in the US, and examines gendered verbal and nonverbal communication. Gendered communication is examined in the family, schools, close relationships, organizations, and the media. This fifth edition contains expanded material on gender in non- Western culture and technology in communication. Wood teaches humanities and communication studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
This text introduces undergraduates to the ways in which gender images of masculinity and femininity affect communication and the way we live. It reviews theories and research on relationships among gender, culture, and communication, overviews the history of women's and men's movements in the US, and examines gendered verbal and nonverbal communication. Gendered communication is examined in the family, schools, close relationships, organizations, and the media. This fifth edition contains expanded material on gender in non- Western culture and technology in communication. Wood teaches humanities and communication studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Introduction: Opening the Conversation | 1 | |
The Social Construction of Inequality | 2 | |
Feminism--Feminisms | 4 | |
Becoming Aware | 6 | |
Why I Wrote This Book | 8 | |
Communication as the Fulcrum of Change | 10 | |
The Challenge of Studying Communication, Gender, and Culture | 11 | |
Discussion Questions | 11 | |
Part I | Conceptual Foundations | |
Chapter 1 | The Study of Communication, Gender, and Culture | 13 |
Communication, Gender, and Culture as an Area of Study | 13 | |
The Meaning of Gender in a Transitional Era | 15 | |
Relationships Among Gender, Culture, and Communication | 18 | |
Summary | 35 | |
Discussion Questions | 35 | |
Chapter 2 | Theoretical Approaches to Gender Development | 37 |
Theoretical Approaches to Gender | 38 | |
Summary | 57 | |
Discussion questions | 58 | |
Chapter 3 | The Rhetorical Shaping of Gender: Women's, Men's, and Gender Movements in America | 60 |
Women's Movements | 61 | |
The Third Wave of Women's Movements in the United States | 80 | |
Men's Movements | 83 | |
Other Movements Focused on Gender | 95 | |
Summary | 100 | |
Discussion Questions | 100 | |
Chapter 4 | Gendered Verbal Communication | 102 |
The Nature of Human Communication | 103 | |
Verbal Communication Expresses Cultural Views of Gender | 103 | |
Gendered Interaction: Masculine and Feminine Styles of Verbal Communication | 115 | |
Summary | 128 | |
Discussion Questions | 129 | |
Chapter 5 | Gendered Nonverbal Communication | 130 |
Functions of Nonverbal Communication | 131 | |
Forms of Nonverbal Communication | 135 | |
Implications of Gendered Nonverbal Communication | 148 | |
Summary | 151 | |
Discussion Questions | 152 | |
Part II | Gendered Communication in Practice | |
Chapter 6 | Gendered Family Dynamics | 153 |
Entering A Gendered Society | 154 | |
Gendering Communication in the Family | 155 | |
The Personal Side of the Gender Drama | 167 | |
Summary | 178 | |
Discussion Questions | 179 | |
Chapter 7 | Gendered Close Relationships | 181 |
The Meaning of Personal Relationships | 182 | |
Gendered Friendships | 185 | |
Gendered Romantic Relationships | 192 | |
Summary | 203 | |
Discussion Questions | 204 | |
Chapter 8 | Gendered Education: Communication in Schools | 206 |
The Organization of Schools | 208 | |
Curricular Content | 213 | |
Educational Processes | 216 | |
Summary | 223 | |
Discussion Questions | 224 | |
Chapter 9 | Gendered Organizational Communication | 226 |
Institutional Stereotypes of Women and Men | 227 | |
Misunderstandings of Professional Communication | 236 | |
Gendered Communication Systems in Organizations | 242 | |
Efforts to Redress Gendered Inequity in Institutions | 250 | |
Summary | 257 | |
Discussion Questions | 258 | |
Chapter 10 | Gendered Media | 261 |
The Prevalence of Media in Cultural Life | 262 | |
Themes in Media | 263 | |
Bias in News Coverage | 279 | |
Implications of Media Representations of Gender | 283 | |
Summary | 290 | |
Discussion Questions | 291 | |
Chapter 11 | Gendered Power and Violence | 293 |
The Social Construction of Gendered Violence | 294 | |
The Many Faces of Gendered Violence | 295 | |
Social Foundations of Gendered Violence | 313 | |
Resisting Gendered Violence: Where Do We Go from Here? | 319 | |
Summary | 322 | |
Discussion Questions | 323 | |
Epilogue: Looking Backward, Looking Forward | 325 | |
The Cultural Construction and Reconstruction of Gender | 325 | |
Looking Backward, Looking Forward | 326 | |
Creating the Future | 335 | |
Discussion Questions | 339 | |
Glossary | 341 | |
References | 345 | |
Index | 377 |