Constructing and Reconstructing Gender

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Pub. Date: 1992-07-01
Publisher(s): State Univ of New York Pr
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Constructing Gender
Defining Gender
Introduction
The Possibility of a Liberating Narrative: Woman on the Edge of Time as Radical, Mythic, Moral Argument
Gender Orientation Scales: An Empirical Assessment of Content Validity
Gender, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Oral Interpretation
Rhetoric and Women: The Private and the Public Spheres
Learning Gender
Introduction
Women Negotiating: Assertiveness and Relatedness
Discourse in Women's Bodies: Advertising in the 1920s
Mind, Body, and Language: When a Woman Notices Her Humanity
Expressing Gender
Introduction
Rhythm, Gender, and Poetic Language
Six Readers Reading Six Photographs
Speaking Metaphorically: A Cultural Enactment of Community Among Women
Genderlect, Powerlect, and Politeness
A Comparison of Male-Female Interaction Norms Regarding New Ideas
Reconstructing Gender
Interacting with Power
Introduction
The Tu/Vous Dilemma: Gender, Power, and Solidarity
Power and Subordinate Evaluations of Male and Female Leaders
Sex, Romance, and Organizational Taboos
Teasing and Sexual Harassment: Double-Bind Communication in the Workplace
Men Communicating with Women: Self-Esteem and Power
Interacting with Culture
Introduction
Writing in the Borderlands: The Poetic Prose of Gloria Anzaldua and Susan Griffin
Gender in Communication: Within and Across Cultures
An Investigation of Gender Differences in Brazilian versus American Managers' Perceptions of Organizational Stressors
Unit VI
Introduction
Conflict Scripts of Men and Women
Competition and Collaboration: Male and Female Communication Patterns During Dyadic Interactions
Enacting Feminism in the Teaching of Communication
God's Wife: Some Gender Reflections on the Bible and Biblical Interpretation
Effecting Labor Reform Through Stories: The Narrative Rhetorical Style of Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
Appendix: Avoiding Sexism in Communication Research: Guidelines for Gender/Sex Research and Publication
Index
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