GenderSpeak: Personal Effectiveness in Gender Communication - Brossura

Ivy, Diana; Backlund, Phil

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ISBN 10: 0072483938 ISBN 13: 9780072483932

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2003

Riassunto

This text is designed for a junior/ senior course focusing on gender and communication. Comprehensive in nature, this text discusses topics ranging from "nature vs. nurture", the effects of media on gender communication, to the effects of gender in relationships.

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L'autore:

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. Ivy’s 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 Women’s Center for Education and Service at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.sti.

Contenuti:

Prologue: The Impact of Social Movements on Gender Communication: You Must Know Where You’ve Been to Know Where You’re Going

Part One: Communication, Gender, and Effectiveness

Chapter 1. Gender Jargon and Effective Communication: Learning to Talk the Talk

Part Two: Influences on Our Choices

Chapter 2. Becoming a Woman, Becoming a Man, Becoming a Person: Biological and Social Influences on Gender Identity Development

Chapter 3. Pictures, Porno, and Pop: Gender and Mass Media

Part Three: Let’s Talk: Initiating and Developing Relationships

Chapter 4. Choosing and Using Gendered Language

Chapter 5. Gender and Relationships: Developing Potential into Reality

Part Four: The Contexts For Our Relationships: Personal Effectiveness in Action

Chapter 6. Gender Communication “Just Among Friends”

Chapter 7. Beyond Friendship: Gender Communication in Love, Sex, and Marriage

Chapter 8. Power Abuses in Human Relationships

Chapter 9. Women and Men in the Workplace: The Challenges of Talking Shop

Chapter 10. A “Class Act: Gender Communication in Educational Settings"

Su questa edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0072483938
• ISBN 13: 9780072483932
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 416