Womens Studies in Communication最新文献

{"title":"Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media.","authors":"Riana Slyter","doi":"10.1080/07491409.2023.2165852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2023.2165852","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46136,"journal":{"name":"Womens Studies in Communication","volume":"46 1","pages":"114 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43640705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"#HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice.","authors":"Shelby R. Crow","doi":"10.1080/07491409.2023.2165849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2023.2165849","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46136,"journal":{"name":"Womens Studies in Communication","volume":"46 1","pages":"112 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47149695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Trans Relational Ambivalences: A Critical Analysis of Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Relational (Un)Belonging in Sports Contexts","authors":"Lore/tta LeMaster, Alaina C. Zanin, Lucy C. Niess, Haley Lucero","doi":"10.1080/07491409.2022.2156418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2022.2156418","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study explores ways trans and gender-nonconforming athletes navigate a sense of relational (un)belonging in sport contexts. Our research reveals dialectic movements between feelings of inclusion/exclusion juxtaposed with the structural being of inclusion/exclusion. More specifically, the feeling of inclusion/exclusion gestures to individual sensed experiences of (un)belonging, while the being of inclusion/exclusion anchors a participant’s individual affective experience navigating binarism vis-à-vis administrative constraints. Taken together, two dialectics—feeling included ↔ being excluded and its dialectic reversal feeling excluded ↔ being included—communicatively constitute what we theorize as “trans relational ambivalences,” which mediate a sense of relational (un)belonging in sport contexts. Our findings implicate settler modes of relating across gender difference, revealing a problem of modernity. Specifically, we reveal a problem in which settler coloniality’s ontological foreclosure on multiplicities produce the communicative effect of individuation. In this regard, our analysis holds inclusion in dialectic tension with exclusion such that the affective experience of one cannot be understood without the structural enactment of the other.","PeriodicalId":46136,"journal":{"name":"Womens Studies in Communication","volume":"46 1","pages":"42 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44786731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Against Gender Essentialism: Reproductive Justice Doulas and Gender Inclusivity in Pregnancy and Birth Discourse","authors":"S. Yam, Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz","doi":"10.1080/07491409.2022.2147616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2022.2147616","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article explores how reproductive justice (RJ) doulas support trans and nonbinary birthing people, while advancing more inclusive practices within the birth world. We begin by tracing historical changes in mainstream birth and pregnancy care to highlight how biological naturalism and woman-centered discourse became ingrained. Then, we analyze primary data, such as participant observations at doula trainings, interviews with RJ doulas, and training materials for birthworkers, to illuminate how RJ doulas mobilize RJ principles to provide gender-affirming advocacy and inclusive care to pregnant and birthing people of all genders. Key rhetorical strategies include (1) advocacy, (2) radical inclusion, and (3) self-reflexivity. Thus, our study extends existing feminist rhetorical scholarship on gender essentialism in popular pregnancy and childbirth discourse, expands scholarship on obstetric violence and marginalization of nonnormative birthing people, and explores rhetorical possibilities for redress.","PeriodicalId":46136,"journal":{"name":"Womens Studies in Communication","volume":"46 1","pages":"1 - 22"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42507039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Developing an Oppositional Gaze: Learning to Look with bell hooks","authors":"Courtney M. Cox","doi":"10.1080/07491409.2022.2135905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2022.2135905","url":null,"abstract":"Over coffee with a friend recently, we compared notes on how graduate students currently engage with cultural studies literature and popular media in seminar courses. He shared a particularly challenging discussion on the politics of representation, where Beyonc e became a key example. One student immediately responded, “Beyonc e is offlimits!” I remember laughing in the moment as I considered how students in my courses also felt protective of their favorite subjects of fandom. Conversely, I am also intimately aware of how easily the classroom becomes a space where “everything is trash” or irredeemable in the supposed service of intellectual inquiry. I later reflected on that conversation and considered how bell hooks might have responded to that student’s exclamation. Given hooks’s own dissection of the pop culture icon, I doubt anyone would have left the classroom seeing ’Yonc e the same way. I first thought of hooks’s piece in The Guardian where she considers how Beyonc e’s album Lemonade “offers viewers a visual extravaganza—a display of black female bodies that transgresses all boundaries. It’s all about the body, and the body as commodity. This is certainly not radical or revolutionary. From slavery to the present day, black female bodies, clothed and unclothed, have been bought and sold” (hooks, 2016, para. 5). Here, the “visual extravaganza” hooks describes breaks boundaries yet replicates the historical commodification of Black female flesh. This, she argues, dilutes the revolutionary potential of the work. Later in the article, hooks describes how the visual album “[constructs] a powerfully symbolic black female sisterhood that resists invisibility, that refuses to be silent. This in and of itself is no small feat—it shifts the gaze of white mainstream culture. It challenges us all to look anew, to radically revision how we see the black female body” (hooks, 2016, para. 8). Gazing. Looking. Seeing. Revisioning. Even as she laments the limits of representation in Lemonade, hooks acknowledges the uneasy task of choosing to be seen, of moving beyond a mere glance or oppressive gaze. This, perhaps, is the greatest gift bestowed upon communication scholars who engage with hooks’s body of work: learning to look. She consistently avoided flattened interpretations and leaned into the complications of what she saw across various platforms. Developing an oppositional gaze, she argues,","PeriodicalId":46136,"journal":{"name":"Womens Studies in Communication","volume":"45 1","pages":"446 - 449"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49579979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What’s [Black] Love Got to Do with It? bell hooks and Black Love in Popular Culture","authors":"Lily Kunda","doi":"10.1080/07491409.2022.2135900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2022.2135900","url":null,"abstract":"When I became interested in Black love as a topic of research, I was going through my own romantic strife. I first struggled to articulate how researching Black love was significant beyond the scope of my own life. In observing representations of Black couples in television, film, and more recently via social media hashtags like #BlackLove and #CoupleGoals, it became clear that the representations I consume help construct my desires. When I read bell hooks’s (2001) Salvation: Black People and Love, it helped me come to terms with my own romantic needs in a critical way. I realized that wanting love as a Black woman is a cultural issue that is complicated by many political and historical factors. In Salvation, hooks urges scholars to be more attentive to the way love works as a form of social justice in the lives of Black folks. Through hooks, I was able to take a closer look at how gender roles function (and at times cause dysfunction) in my personal relationships, as well as in how I read media texts. hooks taught me not to be ashamed for wanting love, wanting to research love, or for enjoying watching Black love in media. Because the love we see in popular culture is a significant part of our lives, I turn here to one of my more complicated favorites. In June 2022, the hit television sitcom Martin (1992–1997) celebrated its 30th anniversary with a special on BETþ. In the special, cast members came together to discuss the legacy of the show, its impact on Black culture, and rumors about a potential reboot. One of the major impacts discussed in relation to the show is the representation of Black love between the main characters, Gina and Martin, played by Tisha Campbell and Martin Lawrence, respectively. As I reflect on the show, its legacy, and the way Martin and Gina have been held up as #couplegoals in the Black imagination, I can’t help but reflect on how bell hooks’s work on Black love and feminism have influenced how and why I watch couples like Martin and Gina on TV. In Salvation, bell hooks explores multiple expressions of Black love and romantic relationships as they relate to race, whiteness, and patriarchy. She details how slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination, and systemic racism influence how Black people have been able to express and experience love. hooks also considers the connection between representations of romantic love on screen and how love manifests in the lives of Black","PeriodicalId":46136,"journal":{"name":"Womens Studies in Communication","volume":"45 1","pages":"440 - 445"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44813121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Healing Is an Act of Communion","authors":"Sarah J. Jackson","doi":"10.1080/07491409.2022.2135913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2022.2135913","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46136,"journal":{"name":"Womens Studies in Communication","volume":"45 1","pages":"457 - 458"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49301257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Investigating Shame in the Age of Social Media","authors":"Tarishi Verma","doi":"10.1080/07491409.2022.2136895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2022.2136895","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Shame is one of the feelings most commonly associated with sexual assault—whether it is shame felt by those who know the survivor or the shame the survivor often feels. The #MeToo movement allowed many survivors to confront this shame and recount their experiences on social media. In the same vein, the 2017 List of Sexual Harassers in Academia (LoSHA) set out to expose incidents of sexual assault within Indian academia. When the list came out, however, some discussions focused less on survivors’ experiences of shame and more on the potential shaming of the accused, leading to descriptions of the list as a “campaign to name and shame.” In this context, the word shame itself was associated with the perpetrator. This article looks at what associations of shame with sexual assault might mean in the era of social media movements and what it might mean for the word shame to be associated with perpetrators, critically or even defensively.","PeriodicalId":46136,"journal":{"name":"Womens Studies in Communication","volume":"45 1","pages":"482 - 496"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48067950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gendered Indian Digital Publics Along Matrices of Domination/Oppression","authors":"R. Gajjala, Swati Kamble, Maitraye Basu, Vijeta Kumar, Ololade Faniyi","doi":"10.1080/07491409.2022.2136885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2022.2136885","url":null,"abstract":"are the result of people being cautious, carefully and earnestly planning approaches to thinking differently,","PeriodicalId":46136,"journal":{"name":"Womens Studies in Communication","volume":"45 1","pages":"459 - 464"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42985935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Friendship, Fellowship, Fury","authors":"Moya Bailey","doi":"10.1080/07491409.2022.2135895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2022.2135895","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46136,"journal":{"name":"Womens Studies in Communication","volume":"45 1","pages":"433 - 439"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48135892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}