Full Description
Transgender Communication Studies: Histories, Trends, and Trajectories brings scholarship in transgender studies to the forefront of the communication discipline. Leland Spencer and Jamie Capuzza provide a broad foundation that documents the evolution of transgender communication studies and challenges fundamental assumptions about the relationship between communication and identity. The contributors explore the political conditions these practices create for persons across the spectrum of gender identities and sexual orientations, placing them in the subdisciplines of human communication, media, and public and rhetorical communication. The collection also looks to the future of transgender research with suggestions and directives for continued work. This comprehensive study inspires critical thinking about gender identity and transgender lives from within the vocabularies and methodologies of communication studies.
Contents
Introduction, Leland G. Spencer IV
Part I: Human Communication
Chapter 1: Health Communication: Patient-Centered Communication: The Experiences of Transgender Adults, Kami Kosenko, Lance Rintamaki, and Kathleen Maness
Chapter 2: Organizational Communication: The Workplace Socialization of Gender Identity: A Phenomenological Exploration of Being Transgender at Work, Jenny Dixon
Chapter 3: Interpersonal Communication: Trans Interpersonal Support Needs, matthew heinz
Chapter 4: Family Communication: Families' Experiences with Transgender Identity and Transition: A Family Stress Perspective, Kristen M. Norwood and Pamela J. Lannutti
Chapter 5: Intercultural Communication: Pushing Boundaries: Toward the Development of a Model for Transing Communication in (Inter)cultural Contexts, Gust A. Yep, Sage E. Russo, and Jace Allen
Part II: Media
Chapter 6: News: What's in a Name? Transgender Identity, Metareporting and the Misgendering of Chelsea Manning, Jamie C. Capuzza
Chapter 7: Television: The Provisio
