Women's Studies in Communication articles from March 2007

Women's Studies in Communication archives from March 2007

The Positive functions of "negative" rhetoric: feminists' expository campaign against the Promise Keepers.(Essay)
March 22, 2007... Several scholars have claimed that feminists failed to effectively counter the Christian men's group, Promise Keepers, because they adopted a negative tone in contrast to Promise Keepers' more positive discourse. I argue, however, that the...

Framing domestic violence fatalities: coverage by Utah newspapers.(Essay)
March 22, 2007... This study explores the framing of one year's worth of domestic violence fatality coverage by newspapers in Utah, which are embedded within a strong patriarchal culture. Deductive and inductive framing analyses were used to identify the primary...

The influence of student sex and instructor sex on student ratings of instructors: results from a College of Communication.(Report)
March 22, 2007... It is important to determine if student ratings of instructors reflect systematic bias due to sex of instructor. We posed research questions as to whether male and female students would rate male or female instructors more highly on five...

From hunting magic to shamanism: interpretations of native American rock art and the contemporary crisis in masculinity.(Essay)
March 22, 2007... This essay examines two prominent models for the interpretation of Native American rock art, highlighting projections of Euro-American gender ideologies and tensions over masculinity onto (pre)historic cultures. Specifically, the figure of the...

Shadows and silences: how women's positioning and unspoken friendship rules in organizational settings cultivate difficulties among some women at work.(Report)
March 22, 2007... This study sheds light on the difficulties some women report in their work relationships, what we call the shadow side. We argue that both our findings and speculation about structural issues suggest that women's role performance and individual...

Entertaining Lesbians: Celebrity, Sexuality, and Self-Invention.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Entertaining Lesbians: Celebrity, Sexuality, and Self-Invention. By Martha Gever. New York: Routledge Press, 2003; pp. xii+236. Hardcover (US) $100, Paper (US) $21.95. In the burgeoning field of gay, lesbian, and queer scholarship,...

The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness. By Donna Haraway. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003; pp. 100. Paper (US) $10.00. Donna Haraway's The Companion Species Manifesto is proof that size can be...