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Gender in Applied Communication Contexts explores the intersection and integration of feminist theory as applied to four important areas: organizational communication, health communication, family communication, and instructional communication. This collection of readings links theoretical insights and contributions to pragmatic ways of improving the lives of women and men in a variety of professional and personal situations. Gender in Applied Communication Contexts is recommended for upper-division and graduate-level courses in gender and communication, feminist theory, organizational communication, health communication, instructional communication, and applied communication. This anthology is also recommended as a research resource for scholars in Women’s Studies, Family Studies, and Business and Management.
Playground or Training Ground?: The Function of Talk in African American and European American Mother-Adolescent Daughter Dyads
Playground or Training Ground?: The Function of Talk in African American and European American Mother-Adolescent Daughter Dyads
In The Music Man, the female residents of River City “Pick-a-Little [and] Talk-a-Little,” as they flit about seemingly obsessed with spreading rumor and gossip. Although this song appears harmless in its “humorous” portrayal of women, the message it conveys equates women's talk with superficiality and foolishness. Coates (1996) contends that women's talk is often demeaned as a result of “society's low evaluation of women's cultural practices” (p. 1). The trivialization of women's talk flies in the face of feminist scholarship, which, in a quest for social change, seeks ...
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