{"product_id":"9781412925594","title":"Communicating Gender Diversity: A Critical Approach","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Shortlisted\" for the IGALA Book Prize 2008\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Communicating Gender Diversity succeeds in its goal of inviting readers into a conversation on the topic of gender and communication. Amongst the broad range of areas opened up to ongoing critical engagement, upper-level undergraduates may find a wealth of topics to pursue into further study\u003c\/strong\u003e—GENDER IN MANAGEMENT:AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCommunicating Gender Diversity: A Critical Approach\u003c\/strong\u003e examines the variety of ways in which communication of and about gender enables and constrains people's intersectional identities. Authors Victoria Pruin DeFrancisco and Catherine Helen Palczewski place an emphasis not on how gender influences communication, but on how communication constitutes gender. Operating from a gender diversity perspective, \u003cb\u003eCommunicating Gender Diversity\u003c\/b\u003e explores how gender is constructed through interpersonal and public discourse about and in the institutions of family, education, work, religion, and media.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book equips readers with the necessary critical analysis tools to form their own conclusions about the ever changing processes of gender in communication. This comprehensive gender in communication book is the first to extensively address the roles of religion, the gendered body, single-sex education, an institutional analysis of gender construction, social construction theory, and more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKey Features\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eOffers an intersectional approach:\u003c\/i\u003e The text does not essentialize gender, but recognizes the way identity ingredients intersect with, and influence, one another.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eIntegrates social scientific, critical\/cultural, and rhetorical analyses: \u003c\/i\u003eThis is the only text that expends extensive time on the work of Judith Butler as it theorizes how gender is something people do and perform, not something they are.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eMoves beyond an individual, personal understanding of gender: \u003c\/i\u003eGender is not something over which people have absolute control, therefore social change is not something for which a particular person is responsible, but something in which all must participate.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccompanied by High-Quality Ancillaries!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eInstructor Resources on CD contain a detailed conceptual outline of every chapter, discussion questions, extended quotations from key sources for the chapter, additional exercises, and cultural resources to be used as in-class illustrations, such as Web pages, music, and video examples.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntended Audience\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThis core text is ideal for courses exploring gender, diversity, and communication as found in departments of communication, women's studies, sociology, psychology, and cultural studies. By providing the latest feminist theorists' views on the topic of gender, sex and communication, and offering an interdisciplinary approach especially useful to disciplines in communication studies, rhetoric, women's studies, gender studies, sociology, anthropology, and psychology, this is much more than a textbook; it is a resource book necessary for any library's collection. The extensive literatures cited in the book make it a comprehensive reference for anyone studying gender\/sex in communication.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"DeFrancisco and Palczewski's book is wonderful. I knew that they were trying to do much more than the previous books, but I hadn't realized just what high goals they had set for themselves -- such extensive reviews and fresh analyses. This will be adopted in many courses and they will be doing many editions of this book.\u003cp\u003eWhat they do with single-sex classes is so very readable, sensible and smart. It's great that they included the chapter on religion; it's about time that that language gets attention..... and they did it in such a way that the chapter calls for attention and consideration rather than resistance. Just very impressive. Many, many thanks.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eCheris Kramarae, Center for the Study of Women in Society,\u003cem\u003eUniversity of Oregon, Eugene\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"College-level collections strong in gender studies and psychology will find \"\u003cstrong\u003eCommunicating Gender Diversity\"\u003c\/strong\u003ean essential key to understanding how communication facilitates how people do gender.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e—MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SAGE Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47029440479472,"sku":"9781412925594","price":88.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781412925594_p0.jpg?v=1763724838","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781412925594","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}