Feminist Communication Theory - Rakow, Lana F.

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Résumé :
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.

Sommaire:
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 McFadden
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 McCarriston
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