Communicating gender diversity: critical approach

[18:02, 15/02/2022] Rashid Ali: Communicating Gender Diversity: A Critical Approach
examines the variety of ways in which communication of and
about gender enables and constrains people's intersectional
identities. Authors Victoria Pruin DeFrancisco and Catherine
Helen Palczewski place an emphasis on how communication
facilitates how people do gender. Operating from a gender
diversity perspective, Communicating Gender Diversity
explores how gender is constructed through interpersonal
and public discourse about and in the institutions of family,
education, work, religion, and media.
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Key Features
Offers an intersectional approach: The text does not treat
gender as some immutable and isolatable category, but
recognizes the way identity ingredients intersect with,
and influence, one another.
Integrates social scientific, critical/cultural, and
rhetorical analyses: This text examines how gender is
something people do and perform, not something they
are. Critical, cultural, and rhetorical perspectives offer
insight into how the performative element of gender
operates.
Moves beyond an individual, personal understanding of
gender: Because gender is not something over which an
individual person has absolute control given the role
institutions play in maintaining gender divisions, the text
approaches social change as something in which all
must participate