COM 411 Gender & Communication

Written by leading gender communication scholars, the text offers a balanced perspective of masculinity and femininity as it demonstrates the multiple and often interactive ways your views of gender are shaped within contemporary culture.

An expert on rhetoric & mass media, Sloop offers critical readings of five cases, showing the extent to which public discourse and media representations serve to reinforce dominant norms and constrain or "discipline" any behavior that blurs or subverts conventional gender boundaries. The cases include John/Joan or David Reimer, Brandon Teena, k.d. lang, Janet Reno, & Barry Winchell/Calpernia Addams.