GenderSpeak: Personal Effectiveness in Gender Communication - Softcover

Ivy, Diana; Backlund, Phil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072483938 ISBN 13: 9780072483932

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2003

Synopsis

Designed for a junior or senior course, this comprehensive text focuses on gender's impact on communication. Engaging and timely topics addressed in it range from the "nature vs. nurture" debate to the effects of media on gender communication and personal relationships.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

GenderSpeak: Personal Effectiveness in Gender Communication,Fourth Edition

Diana K. Ivy, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi
Phil Backlund, Central WashingtonUniversity

 

GenderSpeak: Personal Effectiveness in Gender Communicationis an examination of the attitudes, gender identities, and stereotypes that characterize communication in relationships, with the ultimate goal of improving communication between the sexes.

 

Focused on communication about as well as between women and men, this practical and readable text connects material to students’ everyday lives. GenderSpeak provides students with a balanced approach to the study of gender communication, presenting current research and a variety of perspectives and sources, while avoiding slant or bias.

 

New Features

• Offers anoverhauled research base, providing a balance between scholarly works and popular literature, to give students a broad picture of developments in gender communication studies.
• Incorporates an updated prologue that showcasescontemporary men’s movements in the United States.
• Includes an extendeddiscussion of transgender identity, as an alternative to traditional male and female sexes and masculine and feminine genders (Chapter 1).
• Features a new and improved exploration of such influences as culture and values on the development of gender identity, and the effects of the intersection of race, culture, and gender on communication (Chapter 2)
• Provides an updated look at changing female roles in prime time television, as well as the impact of female rap artists on the music industry (Chapter 3).
• Expands on the exploration of the power of communication (Chapter 4).
• Includes an updated discussion of trends in the workplace that affect women, such as sequencing, flextime, telecommuting, and workplace child care facilities (Chapter 9).

About the Author:

Diana K. Ivy received her undergraduate degree in speech communication and theatre from Texas Wesleyan University in her hometown of Fort Worth, Texas. After serving Wesleyan for four years as Assistant Director of Admissions, Ivy pursued graduate education in the Department of Communication at the University of Oklahoma. Concentrating on instructional and interpersonal communication there, she received her M.A. in 1984 and her Ph.D. in 1987. Ivys first faculty position was in the Department of Speech Communication at Southwest Texas State University, where she received the Professor of the Year Award from the Nontraditional Student Organization and the departmental Outstanding Teacher Award. She then served four years as Basic Course Director in the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University. Currently, Ivy is an Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Director of the Womens Center for Education and Service at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0072483938
• ISBN 13: 9780072483932
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 646