Books in the Communicating Gender series

This book uses shared experiences of women in academia to enrich the existing body of work on women and academic leadership with a focus on enhanced communication strategies. The focused and sustained leadership development discussed in this book can greatly benefit both experienced and inexperienced women in academia.

Carolyn M. Cunningham and Heather M. Crandall analyze the rise of climate activist girls who manage to advance the climate movement using social media, ingenuity, and an intersectional approach. United and focused, they confront the challenges of global systems and cultures that maintain power through all kinds of oppression.

This book explores the rhetorical strategies employed by women involved in aviation between 1911 and 1970. It begins with Harriet Quimby, who began writing aviation-themed articles for Frank Leslie's Weekly in 1911, and ends with Jerrie Cobb, who lobbied to include women in the space program.

This book recovers both historical and contemporary accounts of women's lived experiences of technology, from Ada Lovelace and Hedy Lamarr to women working in the tech industry today, juxtaposing those stories with larger cultural representations of women and technology.

This book explores the ways in which Black masculinities are created, negotiated, and contested in public spaces, calling on theory and praxis for social change.

This book examines prominent women in the 2016 US presidential election-candidates, staffers, families, journalists, and organizers. The authors examine feminism, motherhood, voter expectations, the press, gender, race, class, and agency in this interdisciplinary work spanning political science, communication, and women's and gender studies.

This book uses the tools of the arts, humanities, social sciences, and other fields to address challenges faced by women and girls around the world, both historically and in modern day, with an emphasis on intersectionality.

Empowering Women: Global Voices of Rhetorical Influence explores the topic of women's empowerment, offers a theoretical foundation to understand empowerment, and addresses the value of applying a rhetorical analysis to understand women's rights. In each chapter, Julia A. Spiker explores the rhetoric surrounding women's empowerment by analyzing elite female political leaders from around the world, with each analysis incorporating a rhetorical empowerment framework to unveil key issues surrounding women's empowerment. Spiker then links the rhetorical findings from each case to highlight similarities and differences in the challenges to women's empowerment outlined by world leaders. The conclusion to Empowering Women synthesizes these findings to present an overarching, global picture of women's empowerment. Scholars of gender studies, women's studies, communication, rhetoric, international relations, and political science will find this volume especially useful.

This book explores misogyny across media ranging from political and editorial cartoons to news, sport, film, television, social media (especially Twitter), and journalistic organizations that address gender inequities.

Michelle Obama: First Lady, American Rhetor explores the rhetoric of Michelle Obama through rhetorical and cultural analysis. Given its interdisciplinary approach, this edited collection is useful for graduate courses in communication studies, as well as other fields of study where first lady scholarship is the focus. Concepts such as brand, rhetorical strategy, ethos, persona, audience, black feminist theory, and race history are integral to this insightful contribution.

This book explores Michelle Obama's rhetoric through rhetorical and cultural analysis. It is useful for graduate courses in communication, as well as disciplines where first lady scholarship is the focus. Concepts such as brand, rhetorical strategy, ethos, persona, audience, black feminist theory, and race history are integral to this contribution.

This edited collection analyzes how communication and gender influence work-life balance decisions for men and women in today's culture. Touching on key topics in work-life balance research, contributors explore case studies that expose the challenges and progress influencing families today.

This book examines how and why women use blogs to create successful digital brands based on food preparation, purchase, and consumption. Alane Presswood clarifies the relationships between individual brands, reader communities, and sociocultural trends via an exploration of the strategies employed to create affective relationships on social media.

This edited collection analyzes how communication and gender influence work-life balance decisions for men and women in today's culture. Touching on key topics in work-life balance research, contributors explore case studies that expose the challenges and progress influencing families today.

This book examines prominent women in the 2016 US presidential election-candidates, staffers, families, journalists, and organizers. The authors examine feminism, motherhood, voter expectations, the press, gender, race, class, and agency in this interdisciplinary work spanning political science, communication, and women's and gender studies.

This book considers teens' social media use as a lens through which to more clearly see American adolescence, girlhood, and marginality in the twenty-first century. It investigates how young women use social media to address, mediate, and negotiate the struggles they face in their daily lives as minors, females, and racial minorities.

This book challenges stereotypes about the romance genre, examining how modern romance production serves women in multiple ways, from escapism to sexual education, from fantasy to fun, and most importantly, as a site of production for feminist texts.

This edited collection examines womenΓÇÖs roles in the academy. Statistics show that women outnumber men in most universities and that womenΓÇÖs pay still lags behind menΓÇÖs, but the numbers only hint at the broader story. This edited collection fills that gap with the stories of twelve womenΓÇöfrom part-time faculty to college presidentsΓÇöwho answer key questions such as why they pursued a career in the academy and how they handled childcare issues and sexism in the workplace. Advice, encouragement, and caution are offered to guide those considering a career in the academy and those already in academe who are wondering about their options. This book is recommended for burgeoning female scholars and for established scholars of any gender in womenΓÇÖs studies, gender studies, higher education, and communication studies.