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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Section I Theoretical concepts -- Chapter 1 Rachel Dolezal, transracialism, and the Hypatia controversy: difficult conversations and the need for transgressing feminist discourses -- Sparks, fires, and transgressive futures -- References -- Chapter 2 (Inter)disciplinary transgressions: feminism, communication, and critical interdisciplinarity -- Interdisciplinarities -- Broadening the broad model: Critical feminist interdisciplinary correctives -- Five feminist correctives for the broad model of interdisciplinarity -- Case study: Interdisciplinarity enacted -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Visualizing intersectionality through a fractal metaphor: recursive, non-linear, and changeable -- Intersectionality metaphors -- Visualizing intersectionality as fractal -- The school-to-prison pipeline as an example of intersectionality as fractal -- Conclusions -- Note -- References -- Chapter 4 Transgressing whiteness: contemplative practices in language, communication, and gender studies -- Some context for our concerns -- The discourse of intersectionality -- Some approaches to conflict -- Contemplative feminist practices and the transgression of whiteness -- Final thoughts: A paradigm shift in language, communication, and gender studies -- References -- Chapter 5 The singular they and how it works: a (more or less) structuralist explanation of transgender's poststructuralist, pronominal revolution -- Syntactic contingency and the etymological void -- Deconstructing transgender -- Hierarchic oppositions -- Bakhtin's structuralist/formalist deconstruction -- Summing up -- Notes -- References

Despite decades of activism, resistance, and education, both feminists and genderrebels continue to experience personal, political, institutional, and cultural resistance to rights, recognition, and respect. In the face of these inequalities and disparities, Transgressing Feminist Theory and Discourse seeks to engage with, and disrupt the long-standing debates, unquestioned conceptual formations, and taboo topics in contemporary feminist studies.

Researching Interpersonal Relationships: Qualitative Methods, Studies, and Analysis, by Jimmie Manning and Adrianne Kunkel, explores and demonstrates methodological tools and theories used to guide relationships research, especially studies of interpersonal communication. Featuring chapters illustrated by research studies conducted by leading communication scholars, this book introduces both classic and cutting-edge methodological approaches to qualitative inquiry and analysis. Each chapter highlights a particular method, context, and analytical tool. Through the methodologica

This article describes how autoethnography, a research method that uses—and even foregrounds—personal experience, can be used as a method for studying families. We first define autoethnography, describe orientations to autoethnographic research, and review research that has used autoethnography as a method for studying families. Although autoethnography has numerous strengths, four qualities make it especially suitable for doing family research. We describe how autoethnography can allow researchers to offer insider accounts of families; study everyday, unexpected experiences of families, especially as they face unique or difficult situations; write against limited extant research about families; and make research more accessible to nonacademic audiences. We conclude by offering criteria for evaluating autoethnography, including risks and limitations of the method.

"Before the last half of the twentieth century, the phrase "family communication as relationship" would have struck a reader as unintelligible. Communication between and among family members was neither an object of scientific study nor a focus of individual reflection or cultural analysis. Moreover, according to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word relationship first appeared in 1744 but was not applied "specifically of romantic or sexual relationships" for another two hundred years. The field of communication made a turn to studying communication in relationships and the family during the late 1960s and 1970s as it abandoned the common but fairly bloodless definition of interpersonal communication as face-to-face communication between two people. Influenced by classic works in family systems theory, such as that by Satir (1972), Watzlawick, Beavin, and Jackson (1967), and Bateson (1972), the field adopted the metaphor of the family as a system of relationships built, maintained, changed, and destabilized through interaction. Within ten years, Galvin and Brommel (1982) had produced a textbook on family communication that could overview the extensive research analyzing patterns of interaction within families. Starting with couple interaction data (Gottman 1979), Gottman (2002) built a strong mathematical model for the metaphors of family interaction presented in the family system theories. Even though the metaphor of family communication as relationship has generated important research directions, some theorists argue that metaphors are imprecise, ambiguous, and therefore have no place in scientific discourse. But language, even much scientific language, is metaphorical because we discuss one thing in terms of another (Lakoff and Johnson 1980). Of course, literal statements (e.g., the cat sits on the mat) are possible but as soon as we move from concrete physical experience to talk about abstractions, we employ metaphor."--

Bringing together rhetorical, media studies, organizational communication, ethnographic, pop culture, mass communication, gender studies, and educational technology backgrounds to bear on polymediation, the authors interrogate the language by which we talk about the contemporary media landscape and the impact of the media on people's lives.

This edited volume fills an important gap in health communication, exploring the significant disparities in access to health care and health coverage that LGBT individuals and their families face. With cutting-edge empirical research, the essays examine the social and structural factors that lead to the stigma and discrimination that LGBT populations experience.