Joining the debate on gender differences, this book presents a cross-section of current research in communication, language, and gender studies. The first part presents studies that ask how women and men differ on a range of communication variables and suggest reasons for these differences. The second part offers a variety of critiques of masculine cultural hegemony. The third part envisions how gender differences may be reconceptualized in order to open key cultural institutions to honor both women and men. Taken as a whole, the chapters inform one another in a creative, dialectical tension. Examining what researchers mean by gender differences and values implicit in the term is critical to understanding current trends in gender studies.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Examining "Difference" by Lynn H. Turner and Helen M. Sterk
Explaining Gender Relations
Communication Competencies of Women Employees: A Comparison of Self Ratings with Other Ratings by Cynthia Berryman-Fink
Gender Differences and the Use of Conflict Strategies by Barbara Mae Gayle, Raymond W. Preiss, and Mike Allen
Gender Differences in Critical Incidents Reported by Elderly Health Care Consumers: A Narrative Analysis by Gary L. Kreps
Developmental Differences in M. B. A. Students: An Examination of Life Stories and Career Histories by Susan Schick Case and Lorraine Thompson
On the Origin of Gender-Linked Language Differences: Individual and Contextual Explanations by Mary-Jeanette Smythe and Jasna Meyer
Effects of Sex Composition and Task Structure on Perceptions of Gender-Linked Role Differentiation in Small Groups by Edward A. Mabry and Carolyn Sorgel
A Meta-Analysis of Gender Research in Managerial Influence by Kathleen Krone, Mike Allen, and John Ludlum
Sex, Schemata, and Social Status: TV Character Identification and Occupational Aspirations Among Adolescents by Robert J. Griffin, Shaikat Sen, and Rhonda Plotkin
Interruptions and the Construction of Reality by Sara Hayden
Evaluating Gender Relations
The Image of Stepmothers in Children's Literature 1980-1991 by Pamela J. Cooper
Women's Magazines: Confusing Differences by Bren Ortega Murphy
Sport Sex: Toward a Theory of Sexual Aggression by Sean Michael Gilmore
Courtroom Uses of Linguistic Analysis to Demonstrate a Hostile Work Environment for Women by Susan Shick Case, with Julie Wolfram Cox
"And if We Lose Our Name, Then What about Our Land?" or, What Price Development? by M. J. Hardman
Language Choice and Use: Influences of Setting and Gender by Kathryn A. Remlinger
Expanding Gender Relations
Gender, Media, and Militarism by Lisa Merrill and Denise Quirk
Difference, Dominance, and Dialectics: A Call for Change by Linda A. M. Perry
Visionary Language: The Voice of Mary Robinson by Kathleen B. Watters
Constructing a Postmodernist Ethic: The Feminist Quest for a New Politics by Patricia A. Sullivan and Steven R. Goldzwig
Gender, Communication, and Community by Helen M. Sterk and Lynn H. Turner
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