The Routledge Handbook to Gender and Communication

This volume provides an extensive overview of current research on the complex relationships between communication and gender. Featuring a broad variety of entries written by leading and upcoming scholars, this edited volume uses diverse theoretical frameworks to provide insight into recent concerns regarding changing gender roles, representations, and resources in communication studies. Established research and new perspectives address vital themes in this comprehensive text, including the shifting politics of gender, ethical and technological trends in gendered media and gender in daily life. Comprising 39 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into six thematic sections:

- Gendered identities

- Visualizing gender

- Politics of gender

- Gendered contexts and strategies

- Gendered violence and communication

- Gendered advocacy in action

Within these sections central issues, debates and problems are examined, including: the ethics and politics of gender as identity, impacts of media and technology, legal and legislative battlegrounds over gender inequality and LGBTQ human rights, changing institutional contexts, recent research into communication and gendered violence, in addition to linking academic research on communication and gender to activism and advocacy beyond the academy

The Routledge Handbook to Gender and Communication will be an invaluable reference work for students and researchers in gender studies and communication studies, its international perspectives and the range of themes covered making it an essential and pragmatic pedagogical resource.