Gendered Lives 11th Edition

Chapter 1: The Study of Communication, Gender, and Culture I. Introduction A. Media regularly offers advice and commentary on the subject of gender and communication. B. Student demand for courses in gender and communication is high. C. Learning to better understand the relationship between gender, culture, and

Chapter 10: Gendered Organizational Communication I. Gendered Stereotypes in the Workplace: Social expectations of sexes influence how we treat people in professional contexts. A. Stereotypes of Women: Women in the workplace are often stereotyped into one of the following four categories. 1. The sex object stereotype defines a

Chapter 11: Gendered Media I. Media Saturation of Cultural Life A. People today are media-saturated and media-engaged, with as many as 98.9% of all households owning at least one TV. 1. Films, newspapers, magazines, advertising, radio, and social media fill our lives with media. 2. Social media allow

48 48 48 Chapter 12: Gendered Power and Violence Special Note: The material in this chapter is especially sensitive and potentially polarizing of women and men in the class. In discussing this chapter, it is extremely important to channel conversation in productive ways. The exercises that

Chapter 2: Theoretical Approaches to Gender Development I. Theories are ways of explaining, interpreting, or describing relationships among phenomena in our everyday lives. A. A theory represents a particular viewpoint as an attempt to understand phenomena. B. Theories offer more than explanations. They also influence attitudes and

15 A panel discussion of violence against women might include the sexual harassment officer if your campus has one, a rape counselor from a local womens center, a volunteer from a battered womens shelter in your community, and a staff person from a mens resource center. Different

Chapter 3: The Rhetorical Shaping of Gender: Competing Images of Women I. The Three Waves of Womens Movements A. Individuals and groups have changed how culture views gender and sex. B. Rhetoric is persuasive communication and rhetorical movements are persuasive efforts to challenge and change existing laws, attitudes,

20 JUDGMENT CALL #3: HOW IMPORTANT ARE MENS ISSUES AND MENS MOVEMENTS? Mens movements and efforts to raise awareness of mens issues are relatively recent developments in the United States. In the 1960s when the second wave of American feminism began, there were no identifiable mens movements. Men

Chapter 4: The Rhetorical Shaping of Gender: Competing Images of Men I. Introduction to Mens Movements A. Images of men as breadwinners have long competed with images of men as engaged fathers. These competing images challenge and change how we understand masculinity. B. Men have been less active than

Chapter 5: Gendered Verbal Communication I. Verbal Communication Expresses Cultural Views of Gender A. Male Generic Language Excludes Women 1. Male generic language (chairman, mailman, mankind, he) claims to include both sexes, yet research studies have shown people associate males only with generic terms with much greater frequency

Chapter 6: Gendered Nonverbal Communication I. Nonverbal communication is all elements of communication other than words. A. Scholars state that the majority (65 to 93%, depending on the scholar) of meaning comes from nonverbal behaviors. B. Like language, nonverbal communication is also related to culture and gender. First,

Chapter 7: Becoming Gendered: The Early Years I. Gendering Communication in the Family A. Unconscious Processes: Identification and Internalization a. Psychoanalytic theory posits identity formation as a largely unconscious process through identification and internalization. i. Freud wrote that anatomy is destiny, which meant that the sex of a child

Chapter 8: Gendered Education: Communication in Schools I. Gendered Expectations and Pressures on Students A. Academics 1. Males a. Some psychologists say that the average boy is disadvantaged in early schooling because the feminine environments present include mostly adult females. They also say that boys tend to have more

Chapter 9: Gendered Close Relationships I. The Meaning of Personal Relationships A. Personal relationships are those in which partners depend upon each other for various things ranging from material assistance to affection. Partners regard each other as unique individuals who cannot be replaced. Of the many relationships we

161 SECTION III: Items for Testing Testing, like other aspects of pedagogy, reflects the teaching philosophy and personal style of instructors. For instance, instructors whose primary goal is mastery of information and theory tend to design tests that emphasize retention and understanding of material covered in

181 dress, she will likely be perceived as feminine by others because pink and ruffles are associated with femininity in our culture. If we had decided pink was a masculine color, Callie would be seen as masculine for the same behavior. The implication is that gender only exists

201 expressively, to create and cultivate relationships. Communication becomes the substance of the relationship itself. REF: pp. 110-112 expressively, to create and cultivate relationships. Communication becomes the substance of the relationship itself. REF: pp. 110-112 expressively, to create and cultivate relationships. Communication becomes the substance of the relationship itself.

221 4. In a course on mass media history, the professor shows the film Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio, which ascribes the entire development of radio to three men: David Sarnoff, Lee DeForest, and Edwin Armstrong, ignoring the contributions of women and

241 REF: pp. 224-227 REF: pp. 224-227 REF: pp. 224-227 24. Lilly Ledbetter: ANS: Lilly Ledbetter was an employee at Goodyear Tire and Rubber for nineteen years. Upon her retirement, an anonymous colleague left her a pay schedule that illustrated she was making significantly less money than men

254 254 254 Chapter 12: Gendered Power and Violence Multiple Choice 1. Meagen decides to wear a short skirt and tight shirt to class. As she walks there, a group of males whistle, comment on her legs, and make sexual gestures to her. Which

Introduction: Opening the Conversation I. Julia Wood Introduces Herself A. Authors perspectives affect how books are written. B. Julia is a European American, middle-aged, heterosexual, spiritually engaged, middle-class woman who has been in a committed relationship [] for 41 years. C. She became a feminist during the second