Feminist Communication Theory: Selections in Context

by Lana F. Rakow, Laura A. Wackwitz

Overview

Feminist Communication Theory is a book "of" and "for" feminist communication theorists, providing the potential to help individuals understand the human condition, name personal experiences and engage these experiences through storytelling, and give useful strategies for achieving justice. Lana F. Rakow and Laura A. Wackwitz examine the work of feminist theorists over the past two decades who have challenged traditional communication theory, contributing to the development of feminist communication theory by identifying its important contours, shortcomings, and promise.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761919797
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	09/14/2004
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Feminist Communication Theory: An Introduction
Part 1: Difference
Difference in Feminist Communication Theory
Who is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism - Paula Gunn Allen
The Necessity of Differences: Constructing a Positive Category of Women - Marilyn Frye
Reconciling Equality to Difference: Caring (F)or Justice for People with Disabilities - Anita Silvers
Becoming Post Colonial: African Women Changing the Meaning of Citizenship - Patricia Mc Fadden
On the Logic of Pluralist Feminism - Maria C. Lugones
Part 2: Voice
Voice in the Feminist Communication Theory
"The Grace of Form ": Class Consciousness and an American Writer - Linda Mc Carriston
"For Every Gesture of Loyalty, There Doesn't Have to be a Betrayl ": Asian American Criticism and the Politics of Locality - Leslie Bow
Speaking the Corn into Being - Diane Glancy
Touching the Air: The Cultural Force of Women in Chile - Catherine M. Boyle
Love of the Other - Luce Irigarary
Part 3: Representation
Representation in Feminist Communication Theory
Real and Imagined Women: Politics and/of Representation - Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Negative Images: Towards a Black Feminist Cultural Criticism - Michelle Wallace
The Technology of Gender - Teresa de Lauretis
Images, Ideology, and Women of Color - Leith Mullings
Democracy Without Women is No Democracy: Women's Struggles in Postcommunist Russia - Elizabeth Waters & Anastasia Posadskaya
Index

Editorial Reviews

"This is a remarkable book that embraces the challenge of rethinking communication theory. Much more inclusive than most communication volumes, this guidebook offers a rich diversity of voices, along with a conceptual framework for remaking communication theory. Illuminating, innovative, eloquent-and transforming. "

Cheris Kramarae

"Feminist Communication Theory will be a classic work for all scholars teaching the field of feminist communication studies. We've waited a long time for a compilation that is theoretically innovative and sophisticated, and Rakow and Wackwitz provide it, along with a series of readings immensely valuable for classroom use. I highly recommend this work and plan to use it in my own teaching. "

Andrea Press

"This is a book not only of and for feminist communication theory, but of and for feminists. After a preface that marks and remarks in creative ways how the personal is political, Rakow and Wackwitz offer a compelling account of the need and potential of feminist theorizing for social and structural transformation. The collection represents a range of experiences, problems, voices, and thus will be useful to scholars, students, and activists. "

Linda Steiner