Gender Actualized: Cases in Communicatively Constructing Realities

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