Author(s): Julia Wood (Author), Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz (Author)
Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co
Publication Date: January 1, 2018
Edition: 13th
Language: English
Print length: 312 pages
ISBN-10: 9781337555883
ISBN-13: 9781337555883
Book Description
Written by leading gender communication scholars Julia T. Wood and Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz, GENDERED LIVES: COMMUNICATION, GENDER, & CULTURE, 13th Edition, provides an engaging introduction to the field, equipping students with the tools, knowledge and insight to think critically about gender and society. The authors draw from the latest theories, research and pragmatic information as they demonstrate the multiple–and often interactive–ways that a person’s views of masculinity and femininity are shaped within contemporary culture. Extremely student friendly, the text uses a conversational, first-person writing style and offers balanced coverage of different sexes, genders and sexual orientations. Reflecting emerging trends and issues, the 13th Edition includes expanded coverage of men’s issues, an integrated emphasis on social media and a stronger focus on gender in the public sphere.
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About the Author
Julia Wood joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill when she was 24. During her 37 years on the faculty, she taught classes and conducted research on personal relationships as well as gender, communication and culture. She was named the Lineberger Distinguished Professor of Humanities and the Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Distinguished Professor of Graduate Education. In addition to publishing 25 books and 100 articles and book chapters, she has presented more than 100 papers at professional conferences and campuses around the country. Her accolades include 14 awards honoring her teaching and 16 awards recognizing her scholarship. She received her B.A. from North Carolina State University, her M.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University.
Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz is F. Wendell Miller Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa. She is the author of HOMELAND MATERNITY: US CULTURE AND THE NEW REPRODUCTIVE REGIME (University of Illinois Press, 2019), an award-winning book that examines the policing of pregnancy and parenting in the United States from a rhetorical perspective, and DOING GENDER JUSTICE: QUEERING REPRODUCTION, KIN, AND CARE with Professor Shui-yin Sharon Yam, currently in production with Johns Hopkins University Press. She has published numerous essays on rhetoric and reproductive justice in outlets such as Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Women’s Studies in Communication and Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies. Fixmer-Oraiz co-directs the Reproductive Justice Obermann working group at the University of Iowa with Professor Lina-Maria Murillo. Her scholarship and teaching emerge from a combination of academic training alongside two decades of experience in reproductive politics as a community organizer and advocate in a number of local and regional contexts.
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