The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Communication

This volume provides an extensive overview of current research on the complex relationships between gender and communication. Featuring a broad variety of chapters written by leading and upcoming scholars, this editedcollection uses diverse theoretical frameworks to provide insight into recent concerns regarding changing gender roles, representations, and resources in communication studies. Established research and new perspectives address vital themes in this comprehensive text, including the shifting politics of gender, ethical and technological trends in gendered media, and gender in daily life. Comprising 39 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into six thematic sections: • Gendered lives and identities • Visualizing gender • The politics of gender • Gendered contexts and strategies • Gendered violence and communication • Gender advocacy in action These sections examinecentral issues, debates, and problems, including the ethics and politics of gender as identity, impacts of media and technology, legal and legislative battlegroundsfor gender inequality and LGBTQ+ human rights, changing institutional contexts, and recent researchon gender violence and communication. The final sectionlinks academic research on gender and communication to activism and advocacy beyond the academy. The Routledge Handbookof Gender and Communication will be an invaluable reference work for students and researchers working at the intersections of gender studies and communication studies. Itsinternational perspectives and the range of themes it covers makeit an essential and pragmatic pedagogical resource.

Part I Gendered lives and identities 1 Performing Gender Complaint as Airport Activism, Or: Don’t Get Over It When It’s Not Over Stacy Holman Jones and Anne Harris 2 Dense Particularities: Race, Spirituality, and Queer/Quare Intersectionalities Bryant Keith Alexander 3 Gaysian Fabulosity: Quare(Ing) the Normal and Ordinary Shinsuke Eguchi 4 Communication, Gender, and Career in MENA Countries: Navigating the Push and Pull of Empowerment and Exclusion Astrid M. Villamil and Suzy D’Enbeau 5 Chicano Masculinities Kostia Lennes 6 A New Materialist Framework for Activism in the Age of Mediatization: The Entanglement of Bodies, Objects, Images, and Affects Mariam Betlemidze Part II Visualizing gender 7 Interrogating the Awkward Black Girl: Beyond Controlling Images of Black Women in Televised Comedies Kimberly R. Moffitt and Tammy Sanders Henderson 8 The Male Gaze in Visual Culture Claire Sisco King 9 Vida: Anti-Colonial Queer and Feminist Web TV and the Gaze of Allyship Carolyn Elerding 10 Body Image and Global Media Jasmine Fardouly, Vani Kakar, and Phillippa C. Diedrichs 11 Blood, Bodies, and Shame: Indian Artists Combating Menstrual Stigma on Instagram Marissa J. Doshi 12 Monstrous Erasure: Quare Femme (in)Visibility in Get Out Bernadette Marie Calafell 13 Queer Aesthetics, Playful Politics, and Ethical Masculinities in Luca Guadagnino’s Filmic Adaptation of André Aciman’s Call Me By Your Name J. Nautiyal 14 Feminist and Queer Arts Activism Clare Johnson Part III The Politics of Gender 15 Making Waves: Maxine Waters’s Black Feminist and Womanist Rebuke of Supremacist Hegemony Tracey Owens Patton and Nancy Small 16 One Step Forward … Gender, Communication and the Fragility of Gender(ed) Political Progress Michele L. Hammers, Nina M. Lozano, and Craig O. Rich 17 The Specter of Trans Bodies: Public and Political Discourse about "Bathroom Bills" Kc Councilor 18 Research on Gender and Political Rhetoric: Masculinity, Ingenuity, and the Double Bind Kristina Horn Sheeler, Serena Hawkins, and Eline Van Den Bossche 19 Resisting Orientalist/Islamophobic Feminisms: (Re)Framing the Politics of Difference Fatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui and Shadee Abdi 20 Negative Spaces in the Triangle of Gender, Religion, and New Media: A Case Study of the Ultra-Orthodox Community in Israel Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar 21 Invisible in/Humanity: Feminist Epistemic Ethics and Rhetorical Studies Kundai Chirindo Part IV Gendered Contexts and Strategies 22 Organizational Discourse and Sexuality in Male-Dominated Organizational Settings Clifton Scott, Aly Stetyick, and Jaime Bochantin 23 Shifting Sands and Moving Goalposts: Communicating Gender in Sport Kitrina Douglas and David Carless 24 Gender, Sexuality, and Health Communication During the Illness Experience Kallia O. Wright and Kesha Morant Williams 25 Women First: Bumble™ as a Model for Managing Online Gendered Conflict Sean Eddington and Patrice M. Buzzanell 26 Straight (White) Women Writing about Men Bonking? Complicating our Understanding of Gender and Sexuality in Fandom Mel Stanfill Part V Gendered Violence and Communication 27 Imaging Rape, Imagining Woman in Popular Indian Cinema: Victim, Vigilante, or Goddess? Sunera Thobani 28 Speak Up, Sis: Black Women, Race, and News Coverage of the Me Too Movement Tia C. M. Tyree 29 Digital Testimonios and Witnessing of Salma Hayek and America Ferrera’s Disclosures of Sexual Harassment and Assault Raisa F. Alvarado and Michelle A. Holling 30 From Innocents to Experts: Queer and Trans of Color Interventions into #Metoo Elena Elías Krell 31 Symbolic Erasure as Gendered Violence: The Link Between Verbal and Physical Harm Kate Lockwood Harris 32 Sherlock Holmes and the Case for Toxic Masculinity Ashley Morgan Part VI Gender Advocacy in Action 33 Queer Praxis: The Daily Labors of Love and Agitation Dustin Bradley Goltz and Jason Zingsheim 34 Communicating Gender Advocacy: Riding the Fourth Wave of Feminism Sarah Jane Blithe and Mackenna Neal 35 The Oppositional Gaze As Spectacle: Feminist Visual Protest Movements in China Nickesia S. Gordon and Yuhan Huang 36 Refusing Mastery, Mastering Refusal: Critical Communication Pedagogy and Gender Benny Lemaster and Deanna L. Fassett 37 Gender Futurity at the Intersection of Black Lives Matter and Afrofuturism Amber Johnson 38 Latinx Feminist Activism for the Safety of Women Journalists Aimée Vega Montiel 39 Pushing Boundaries: Toward the Development of a Model for Transing Communication in (Inter)Cultural Contexts Gust A. Yep, Sage E. Russo, and Jace Allen

Marnel Niles Goins (Ph.D., Howard University) is Interim Dean of the College of Sciences and Humanities and Professor of Communication at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. Joan Faber McAlister (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Media, & Social Change at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Bryant Keith Alexander (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University Carbondale) is Professor and Dean of the College of Communication and Fine Arts at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.