Gender Actualized: Cases in Communicatively Constructing Realities
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Copyright: 2019
Pages: 286
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Gender Actualized: Cases in Communicatively Constructing Realities is an edited collection of 43 cases that provide a common frame for dialoguing about gender/ed issues. Centered in narrative theory, it extends the realm of personal experience by introducing situations in context that involve real decisions about important issues that, like life, do not lend themselves to superficial or simple analysis.
Kirby and McBride have updated cases from the previous edition to expand coverage of gendered topics such as work/life and organizations, family and parenting, health and medicine, education, religion, violence/abuse, and language, among others. Additionally, they have added new cases and highlighted a perspective of intersectionality to better address current issues of gender, including:
- #MeToo Movement
- Black Lives Matter
- Gendered issues with immigration
- Transgender and nonbinary gendered identities
- Toxic masculinity
- Consent
- Bullying
Upon adoption of the casebook for your course, additional benefits include:
- The new e-edition costs only $25 for students (for 43 cases—less than 60 cents a case!)
- The authors are willing to Zoom, Skype, or call into a class session with your students
- Discussion questions are included at the end of every case to promote dialogue
- Extensive instructor resources that include discussion questions, endings of cases, and other scholarly resources.
- For ongoing gender/ed discussions, students can follow the Gender Actualized Facebook and Twitter accounts @GActualized
1. "Am I Taking Space or Making Space?": Power, Privilege, and Male Victims of Intimate Partner Violence | Guy McHendry
2. "Amnistia y legalizacion": Gendered Immigration in the Heartland | Victoria Pruin DeFrancisco and Karen Mitchell
3. "Babies are Not Like Potato Chips, You Can Stop at Just One": Family Pressures and Myths about One-Child Families | Maggie LaWare
4. "[We are Concerned that She] Wears Her Feminism on Her Sleeve": Challenges in Becoming a Deacon's Wife | Bren Ortega Murphy
5. "Can a Man Be a Feminist?": Moving from Dominance to Alliance | M. Chad McBride
6. "Can We Not Judge Other Women's Choices?": Working and Family Possibilities for Women | Erika L. Kirby and M. Chad McBride
7. "Do We Need to Make It Look Good?": Form, Function, and Femininity for Women with Disabilities | Laura L. Ellingson
8. "Don't Be So Gay!": Challenging Homophobic Language | Erika L. Kirby
9. "#F*ckphyllis": Attacking a Chancellor's Race and Gender for not Calling a Snow Day | Erika L. Kirby, Jillian Kuligowski and Catherine Cullen
10. "What's Really Going on with Black Masculinity?": Multiple Reflections on Black Panther | Siobhan Smith-Jones
11. "How Is That Going to Work?": Explaining Commuter Marriage to Others | Karla Mason Bergen
12. "I Face Barriers because of My Religion": Religiosity, Ethnicity & Cross-Gender Patient Interactions for a Male Muslim Physician | Nicole Defenbaugh
13. "I Feel Like I Won't Be a Good Mom if I Don't at Least Try": The Breastfeeding Debate | Sherianne Shuler
14. "I Never Hit Her": Abuse between Intimate Partners | Julia T. Wood
15. "Is It Because I'm Female?": Challenges to Young Female Instructors in the College Classroom | Karla Mason Bergen
16. "It Changed the Game of Life for Me, Drastically": Coming Out as as Transgender Teen | Erika L. Kirby
17. “It's Not Supposed to Be This Way”: A Couple Coping with Miscarriage | Amanda Holman, Chad McBride, and Haley Kranstuber Horstman
18. "Let Me Work the Kinks Out of Your Neck": The (Harassment?) Story of Jared and Chris | Diana K. Ivy and Shawn T. Wahl
19. "Like the Marines, Do We Need a Few Good Men?": Contesting the Single-Sex Mandate of the YWCA | Lynn M. Harter, Erika L. Kirby, and Margaret M. Quinlan
20. "Look, Not Everybody Can Get Pregnant!": When Private Infertility Issues Are Made Public | Jennifer J. Bute
21. "Male Patients Don't See you as Empathetic Enough": Frustrations of a Female Doctor | Viola Currie and Erika L. Kirby
22. "Mom. Dad. Did You Know?": Communicating about Sex in the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine | Marie Thompson and Lynn M. Harter
23. "What It Means to be a Good Father": Working and Fathering Dilemmas for Men of Differing Socioeconomic Classes | Suzy D'Enbeau, Patrice Buzzanell and John Duckworth
24. "Only Skinny Girls Get the Roles": Body Image in the Dance World | Paige P. Edley
25. "Our Father Creator Who Art in Heaven...": Negotiating Patriarchal Language in Religion and Feminism | Erika L. Kirby
26. "Pressure to Perform:" Brett’s Negotiations of Male Friendships, Body Image and Dating Relationships | M. Chad McBride
27. "She Singled Me Out Because I'm a Woman:" Gender/ed Dynamics and Workplace Bullying | Stacy Tye-Williams
28. "Starting Life with a Clean Slate": Negotiating Transgender Identity as a Job Candidate | Sherianne Shuler
29. "They Won't Show Up at a Shelter!": The Invisible Population of LGBT Teens Experiencing Homelessness | Renee Houston
30. "This Just Isn't Working Out": Gender, Technology, and Work/Family | Annis G. Golden
31. "This Wouldn't Happen to a Mother": Two Dads Raising a Son | M. Chad McBride
32. "We are Family": Gender and Race in the Movement for Black Lives Matter | Jeffrey McCune
33. "When Do I Get a Break?": Unexpected Emotions for a Stay-at-Home Dad | Caryn E. Medved
34. “Who’s Included in #MeToo?”: Difficult Discussions in the Classroom | Lynn Turner
35. "What Happened? How Did I Get Here?": Consent and Sexual Assault on a College Campus | Loreen N. Olson and Amber Holland
36. "Why Are There So Many Girls?": Talking Gender and Adoption in a Lesbian Family | Elizabeth A. Suter
37. "Why Can’t I Just Clock In and Out?": Talking about Work Life and Mentoring in Academia | Kathy Denker and Kayla Rausch
38. "Wine, Chocolate, and Ideas": The Creatively Welcoming Space of the Organization for the Study of Language, Gender and Communication | Cynthia Berryman-Fink, Cheris Kramarae, Bobby Patton, Anita Taylor, and Virginia E. Wheeless
39. "With You We Got a Twofer": Challenging the Affirmative Action Hire Stereotype | Brenda J. Allen
40. "Would You Ever Make a Guy Wear Eyeliner?": External Pressures to Do Gender | M. Chad McBride
41. "Wow, You are a Female Engineer! ": Gender and the Chilly Climate of STEM Fields | Jessica Rick and Anna Valaivska
42. "You Don't Just Not Get Married": The Normalization of Gender Role Expectations | Karen L. Daas
43. "You're Totally Her Work Husband": Managing Misconceptions in the Work-Spouse Relationship | M. Chad McBride and Erika L. Kirby
I was delighted when Chad and Erika invited me to contribute a case study to this book because students learn best when they work with material drawn from real life. Communication is intricately woven into our concrete, everyday lives, and these cases allow students to realize how profoundly communication shapes their experiences...a vital teaching resource.
Julia Wood, Distinguished Professor of Humanities
University of North Carolina
A cutting-edge, important contribution...[that] challenges students to analyze provocative, sometimes controversial scenarios in which sex, gender, and communication intersect. Helpful instructional strategies accompany each case to facilitate classroom delivery of the content and to enhance students' learning...an excellent tool for facilitating students connecting course material to their own lives.
Diana Ivy, Professor of Communication
Texas A&M Corpus Christi
Across my years of teaching I had yet to encounter a text like this...the collection brings together an amazing group of gender scholars, ranging from those who literally initiated the study of gender in communication studies (i.e., Cheris Kramarae) to cutting edge new scholars, who push the boundaries of what we know.
Elizabeth Suter, Assistant Professor of Gender Studies
University of Denver
Students will love [it]...it engages readers and asks them to step into another's world to examine multiple gendered dilemmas. The collection demonstrates an endless, intersectional, and holistic view of gender identity - that one's identity is a unique mixture of sex, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age...I also find it useful in teaching intercultural and interpersonal communication as well as women's studies.
Victoria Pruin DeFrancisco, Professor of Communication
University of Northern Iowa
The wide variety of content areas makes this book applicable to several disciplines—sociology, psychology, communication studies, and women’s and gender studies. The voices and struggles of people in different social locations illuminates how intersecting social structures enable privilege and disadvantage simultaneously. Leaving the stories open…removes judgment and opens up exploration and analyses. I look forward to lively discussions instigated by the essays.
Julia McQuillan, Associate Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies
University of Nebraska
Gender Actualized: Cases in Communicatively Constructing Realities is an edited collection of 43 cases that provide a common frame for dialoguing about gender/ed issues. Centered in narrative theory, it extends the realm of personal experience by introducing situations in context that involve real decisions about important issues that, like life, do not lend themselves to superficial or simple analysis.
Kirby and McBride have updated cases from the previous edition to expand coverage of gendered topics such as work/life and organizations, family and parenting, health and medicine, education, religion, violence/abuse, and language, among others. Additionally, they have added new cases and highlighted a perspective of intersectionality to better address current issues of gender, including:
- #MeToo Movement
- Black Lives Matter
- Gendered issues with immigration
- Transgender and nonbinary gendered identities
- Toxic masculinity
- Consent
- Bullying
Upon adoption of the casebook for your course, additional benefits include:
- The new e-edition costs only $25 for students (for 43 cases—less than 60 cents a case!)
- The authors are willing to Zoom, Skype, or call into a class session with your students
- Discussion questions are included at the end of every case to promote dialogue
- Extensive instructor resources that include discussion questions, endings of cases, and other scholarly resources.
- For ongoing gender/ed discussions, students can follow the Gender Actualized Facebook and Twitter accounts @GActualized
1. "Am I Taking Space or Making Space?": Power, Privilege, and Male Victims of Intimate Partner Violence | Guy McHendry
2. "Amnistia y legalizacion": Gendered Immigration in the Heartland | Victoria Pruin DeFrancisco and Karen Mitchell
3. "Babies are Not Like Potato Chips, You Can Stop at Just One": Family Pressures and Myths about One-Child Families | Maggie LaWare
4. "[We are Concerned that She] Wears Her Feminism on Her Sleeve": Challenges in Becoming a Deacon's Wife | Bren Ortega Murphy
5. "Can a Man Be a Feminist?": Moving from Dominance to Alliance | M. Chad McBride
6. "Can We Not Judge Other Women's Choices?": Working and Family Possibilities for Women | Erika L. Kirby and M. Chad McBride
7. "Do We Need to Make It Look Good?": Form, Function, and Femininity for Women with Disabilities | Laura L. Ellingson
8. "Don't Be So Gay!": Challenging Homophobic Language | Erika L. Kirby
9. "#F*ckphyllis": Attacking a Chancellor's Race and Gender for not Calling a Snow Day | Erika L. Kirby, Jillian Kuligowski and Catherine Cullen
10. "What's Really Going on with Black Masculinity?": Multiple Reflections on Black Panther | Siobhan Smith-Jones
11. "How Is That Going to Work?": Explaining Commuter Marriage to Others | Karla Mason Bergen
12. "I Face Barriers because of My Religion": Religiosity, Ethnicity & Cross-Gender Patient Interactions for a Male Muslim Physician | Nicole Defenbaugh
13. "I Feel Like I Won't Be a Good Mom if I Don't at Least Try": The Breastfeeding Debate | Sherianne Shuler
14. "I Never Hit Her": Abuse between Intimate Partners | Julia T. Wood
15. "Is It Because I'm Female?": Challenges to Young Female Instructors in the College Classroom | Karla Mason Bergen
16. "It Changed the Game of Life for Me, Drastically": Coming Out as as Transgender Teen | Erika L. Kirby
17. “It's Not Supposed to Be This Way”: A Couple Coping with Miscarriage | Amanda Holman, Chad McBride, and Haley Kranstuber Horstman
18. "Let Me Work the Kinks Out of Your Neck": The (Harassment?) Story of Jared and Chris | Diana K. Ivy and Shawn T. Wahl
19. "Like the Marines, Do We Need a Few Good Men?": Contesting the Single-Sex Mandate of the YWCA | Lynn M. Harter, Erika L. Kirby, and Margaret M. Quinlan
20. "Look, Not Everybody Can Get Pregnant!": When Private Infertility Issues Are Made Public | Jennifer J. Bute
21. "Male Patients Don't See you as Empathetic Enough": Frustrations of a Female Doctor | Viola Currie and Erika L. Kirby
22. "Mom. Dad. Did You Know?": Communicating about Sex in the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine | Marie Thompson and Lynn M. Harter
23. "What It Means to be a Good Father": Working and Fathering Dilemmas for Men of Differing Socioeconomic Classes | Suzy D'Enbeau, Patrice Buzzanell and John Duckworth
24. "Only Skinny Girls Get the Roles": Body Image in the Dance World | Paige P. Edley
25. "Our Father Creator Who Art in Heaven...": Negotiating Patriarchal Language in Religion and Feminism | Erika L. Kirby
26. "Pressure to Perform:" Brett’s Negotiations of Male Friendships, Body Image and Dating Relationships | M. Chad McBride
27. "She Singled Me Out Because I'm a Woman:" Gender/ed Dynamics and Workplace Bullying | Stacy Tye-Williams
28. "Starting Life with a Clean Slate": Negotiating Transgender Identity as a Job Candidate | Sherianne Shuler
29. "They Won't Show Up at a Shelter!": The Invisible Population of LGBT Teens Experiencing Homelessness | Renee Houston
30. "This Just Isn't Working Out": Gender, Technology, and Work/Family | Annis G. Golden
31. "This Wouldn't Happen to a Mother": Two Dads Raising a Son | M. Chad McBride
32. "We are Family": Gender and Race in the Movement for Black Lives Matter | Jeffrey McCune
33. "When Do I Get a Break?": Unexpected Emotions for a Stay-at-Home Dad | Caryn E. Medved
34. “Who’s Included in #MeToo?”: Difficult Discussions in the Classroom | Lynn Turner
35. "What Happened? How Did I Get Here?": Consent and Sexual Assault on a College Campus | Loreen N. Olson and Amber Holland
36. "Why Are There So Many Girls?": Talking Gender and Adoption in a Lesbian Family | Elizabeth A. Suter
37. "Why Can’t I Just Clock In and Out?": Talking about Work Life and Mentoring in Academia | Kathy Denker and Kayla Rausch
38. "Wine, Chocolate, and Ideas": The Creatively Welcoming Space of the Organization for the Study of Language, Gender and Communication | Cynthia Berryman-Fink, Cheris Kramarae, Bobby Patton, Anita Taylor, and Virginia E. Wheeless
39. "With You We Got a Twofer": Challenging the Affirmative Action Hire Stereotype | Brenda J. Allen
40. "Would You Ever Make a Guy Wear Eyeliner?": External Pressures to Do Gender | M. Chad McBride
41. "Wow, You are a Female Engineer! ": Gender and the Chilly Climate of STEM Fields | Jessica Rick and Anna Valaivska
42. "You Don't Just Not Get Married": The Normalization of Gender Role Expectations | Karen L. Daas
43. "You're Totally Her Work Husband": Managing Misconceptions in the Work-Spouse Relationship | M. Chad McBride and Erika L. Kirby
I was delighted when Chad and Erika invited me to contribute a case study to this book because students learn best when they work with material drawn from real life. Communication is intricately woven into our concrete, everyday lives, and these cases allow students to realize how profoundly communication shapes their experiences...a vital teaching resource.
Julia Wood, Distinguished Professor of Humanities
University of North Carolina
A cutting-edge, important contribution...[that] challenges students to analyze provocative, sometimes controversial scenarios in which sex, gender, and communication intersect. Helpful instructional strategies accompany each case to facilitate classroom delivery of the content and to enhance students' learning...an excellent tool for facilitating students connecting course material to their own lives.
Diana Ivy, Professor of Communication
Texas A&M Corpus Christi
Across my years of teaching I had yet to encounter a text like this...the collection brings together an amazing group of gender scholars, ranging from those who literally initiated the study of gender in communication studies (i.e., Cheris Kramarae) to cutting edge new scholars, who push the boundaries of what we know.
Elizabeth Suter, Assistant Professor of Gender Studies
University of Denver
Students will love [it]...it engages readers and asks them to step into another's world to examine multiple gendered dilemmas. The collection demonstrates an endless, intersectional, and holistic view of gender identity - that one's identity is a unique mixture of sex, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age...I also find it useful in teaching intercultural and interpersonal communication as well as women's studies.
Victoria Pruin DeFrancisco, Professor of Communication
University of Northern Iowa
The wide variety of content areas makes this book applicable to several disciplines—sociology, psychology, communication studies, and women’s and gender studies. The voices and struggles of people in different social locations illuminates how intersecting social structures enable privilege and disadvantage simultaneously. Leaving the stories open…removes judgment and opens up exploration and analyses. I look forward to lively discussions instigated by the essays.
Julia McQuillan, Associate Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies
University of Nebraska