Gender Communication Theories and Analyses

Charlotte Kroløkke (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; M.A., University of North Dakota, Grand Forks; B.A., Syddansk Universitet [Odense Danmark]) is Assistant Professor at the Center for Cultural Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. She has worked especially within the fields of computer-mediated communication and third-wave feminist rhetoric on the Internet. She is a member of U.S. and Danish gender and communication associations and a board member of the Danish Gender Studies Library in Copenhagen, Denmark. Anne Scott Sørensen (Ph.D., University of Southern Denmark; M.A., Aarhus University; B.A., Royal School of Library & Information Science) is Associate Professor and Head of the Center for Cultural Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. She has written extensively on gendered speech communities from the salons in Europe in the 18th – 20th centuries to the online communities of young people in the 21st century. She is Head of the Danish Network for Cultural Studies and a board member of the International Association of Cultural Studies.

“The book presents some ongoing struggles and tensions in feminist work as researchers and theorists carve niches, expand knowledge, and strive for legitimacy in the academy…This is a book to which I am going to return again and again because of its remarkable synthesis of past and present feminist communication work as well as its look toward the future. The examples throughout are vivid and compelling and the primary focus on the performance lens offers much to identity, cultural, and political communication and feminist studies. It is an excellent resource or springboard for future scholarship as well as a riveting and coherent analysis of scholarship that can challenge advanced students in feminist and communication studies courses. My congratulations to Kroløkke and Scott Sørensen for authoring such an interesting and needed book.”   --Patrice M. Buzzanell, Purdue University

• IntroductionAcknowledgments1. Three Waves of Feminism: From Suffragettes to GrrlsThe First Feminist Wave: Votes for WomenThe Second Feminist Wave: "The Personal Is Political"The Third Feminist Wave: Transversal PoliticsOur Own Situatedness: Transversity2. Feminist Communication TheoriesStructuralism and Feminist Communication TheoriesPoststructuralism and Feminist Communication TheoriesConclusion3. Feminist Communication MethodologyStructuralism and MethodologyPoststructuralism and MethodologyConclusion4. Sexist Discourse, Deficit and DominanceFrom Deficit to DominanceSituated DominancesCase Study: Feminist Conversation Analysis (FCA)5. Discourses of Difference and IdentityGender, Discourse, and ArticulationSettings of DifferenceCase Study: Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis (FCDA)6. Gender and PerformanceGender, Performance, and CommunicationSituated PerformancesCase Study: Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis (FPDA)ConclusionFrom Silence to PerformanceFrom Conversation Analysis to Poststructuralist Discourse AnalysisToward Transitivity: What Does the Future Hold?ReferencesIndexAbout the Authors