Untying The Tongue
The words and grammatical structure of a given language are the most basic building blocks of thought and communication; they reflect the ways speakers conceptualize themselves and their world and communicate with others. Since language reflects a culture's biases and inequities, a socially constructed, gendered power differential between men and women may lead each to have very different relationships to language. The essays in this collection explore some of the ways in which power and its...
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Explores the relationships among gender, language, and power. Booknews Explores some of the ways in which power and its expression (or repression) is gendered. Some chapters are primarily descriptive examinations of presumed gender differences, while others seek to critique or deconstruct these supposed meanings associated with gender and power relations. Contains sections on gender and the word, gender and the image, power and pedagogy, power and relation at home and at work, power and empowerment, and gender, power, and the media. Specific subjects include the construction of gender roles on MTV, and experiences of women majoring in biology and education. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
IntroductionPt. IGender and the Word11Masculinist Generic Language and the U.S. Woman's Rights Movement, 1850-192052The French Connection: Luce Irigaray and International Research on Language and Gender133The Possessive, Gender, and Subjectivity254Chinese Sexist Language, Behavior, and Cultural Attitudes33Pt. IIGender and the Image415Writing Lives and Telling Tales: Visions and Revisions436Reading Our Selves in The Cannibal Galaxy537Females and Feminism in New Yorker Cartoons658Basic Instinct: Does Hollywood Instinctively Marginalize Lesbians and Gays?77Pt. IIIGender, Power, and the Media879Spectatorship and Complicity: Who Is the "Accused" in Popular Film Depictions of Gender and Violence?9110Evolving Images of Women and Men: The Construction of Gender Roles on MTV10311Teaching Theoretical Perspectives in the Gender and Communication Classroom: From Biology to Hegemony in Coach11312Toward a Feminist Pedagogy: Using Television to Explore Gender and Communication Issues in the Classroom123Pt. IVPower and Pedagogy13913The Grammar of Connected Teaching14314Voices Seldom Heard: A Descriptive Analysis of Female and Male Teachers' Positive Interactions with Young People15115(Re)telling the Old Tales: The Emerging Voices of Women in English and Mathematics16316Lab Coats and Little Girls: The Science Experiences of Women Majoring in Biology and Education at a Private University175Pt. VPower and Relation at Home and at Work19317Women and Friends in the Workplace: A Study of Coworker Relationships and the Communication Within Them19718Case Management: Nurses and Physicians Confronting Gendered Organization21119Communication Patterns and Decision Making: A Comparison of Third-Party Assessments and Couple Self-Reports219Pt. VIPower and Empowerment23520A Feminist Guide to Studying Self-Esteem in Communication23921Enhancing Argumentativeness and Argumentative Behavior: The Influence of Gender and Training25122Strategic Storytelling: Constructing Self through Narrative and Nautilus26723Women's Spirituality: Attitudes, Visions, and Health28124Postmodern Possibilities: Gender, Power, and Moral Development289Index301About the Contributors311
\ BooknewsExplores some of the ways in which power and its expression (or repression) is gendered. Some chapters are primarily descriptive examinations of presumed gender differences, while others seek to critique or deconstruct these supposed meanings associated with gender and power relations. Contains sections on gender and the word, gender and the image, power and pedagogy, power and relation at home and at work, power and empowerment, and gender, power, and the media. Specific subjects include the construction of gender roles on MTV, and experiences of women majoring in biology and education. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
