Constructing and Reconstructing Gender is an excellent compendium of current research, and will be appealing and useful to those interested in gender issues in a wide variety of disciplines. This book cuts across disciplines and scholarly methods, drawing from many backgrounds, including Communication, Linguistics, English, Business, Law, and Psychology. The interweaving of rhetorical, critical, phenomenological, and statistical methods gives readers a multifaceted analysis of gender. At the same time that this book shows the value of gender research in provoking new currents of thought, it also brings into focus two aspects of gender that are often confused: how gender operates as a cultural category that affects communication behavior, and how communication and language function to create gender categories.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Introduction Section I: Constructing Gender Unit I: Defining Gender Introduction 1. The Possibility of a Liberating Narrative: Woman on the Edge of Time as Radical, Mythic, Moral Argument Dana L. Cloud 2. Gender Orientation Scales: An Empirical Assessment of Content Validity T. Joan Fecteau, Jullane Kackson, and Kathryn Dindia 3. Gender, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Oral Interpretation Lisa Merrill 4. Rhetoric and Women: The Private and the Public Spheres Lesley Di Mare Unit II: Learning Gender Introduction 5. Women Negotiating: Assertiveness and Relatedness Steven Hartwell, Roger C. Pace, and Renata Hutak 6. Discourse in Women's Bodies: Advertising in the 1920s Margaret A. Hawkins and Thomas K. Nakayama 7. Mind, Body, and Language: When a Woman Notices Her Humanity Margret S. Crowdes Unit III: Expressing Gender Introduction 8. Rhythm, Gender, and Poetic Language Elizabeth Fay 9. Six Readers Reading Six Photographs Rebecca Bryant Lockridge 10. Speaking Metaphorically: A Cultural Enactment of Community Among Women Denice A. Yanni 11. Genderlect, Powerlect, and Politeness Nancy Hoar 12. A Comparison of Male-Female Interaction Norms Regarding New Ideas Marjorie A. Jaasma Section II: Reconstructing Gender Unit IV: Interacting with Power Introduction 13. The Tu/Vous Dilemma: Gender, Power, and Solidarity Alice H. Deakins 14. Power and Subordinate Evaluations of Male and Female Leaders Belle Rose Ragins 15. Sex, Romance, and Organizational Taboos Patrice M. Buzzanell 16. Teasing and Sexual Harassment: Double-Bind Communication in the Workplace J. K. Alberts 17. Men Communicating with Women: Self-Esteem and Power Mary Monedas Unit V: Interacting with Culture Introduction 18. Writing in the Borderlands: The Poetic Prose of Gloria Anzaldua and Susan Griffin Diane P. Freedman 19. Gender in Communication: Within and Across Cultures Margaret Riley 20. An Investigation of Gender Differences in Brazilian versus American Managers' Perceptions of Organizational Stressors Ana Rossi, William R. Todd-Mancillas, and Barbara Apps Unit VI: Interacting with Audience Introduction 21. Conflict Scripts of Men and Women Judi Beinstein Miller 22. Competition and Collaboration: Male and Female Communication Patterns During Dyadic Interactions Mary-Jeaneette Smythe and Bill Huddleston 23. Enacting Feminism in the Teaching of Communication Judith K. Bowker and Pamela Regan Dunkin 24. God's Wife: Some Gender Reflections on the Bible and Biblical Interpretation John J. Schmitt 25. Effecting Labor Reform Through Stories: The Narrative Rhetorical Style of Mary Harris "Mother" Jones Mari Boor Tonn Appendix: Avoiding Sexism in Communication Research: Guidelines for Gender/Sex Research and Publication Index