Transgender Communication Studies

Histories, Trends, and Trajectories

Contributions by Mary Alice Adams, Jace Allen, Joshua Trey Barnett, E. Tristan Booth, Peter Odell Campbell, Jamie C. Capuzza, Jenny Dixon, Thomas R. Dunn, matthew heinz, Cory Holding, Kami Kosenko, Pamela J. Lannutti, Paul Martin Lester, Kathleen Maness, Lucy J. Miller, Kristen M. Norwood, Lance Rintamaki, Sage E. Russo, Leland G. Spencer, Gust A. Yep Edited by Jamie C. Capuzza, Leland G. Spencer

Publication date:

05 February 2015

Length of book:

300 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9781498500050

Transgender Communication Studies: Histories, Trends, and Trajectories brings scholarship in transgender studies to the forefront of the communication discipline. Leland Spencer and Jamie Capuzza provide a broad foundation that documents the evolution of transgender communication studies and challenges fundamental assumptions about the relationship between communication and identity. The contributors explore the political conditions these practices create for persons across the spectrum of gender identities and sexual orientations, placing them in the subdisciplines of human communication, media, and public and rhetorical communication. The collection also looks to the future of transgender research with suggestions and directives for continued work. This comprehensive study inspires critical thinking about gender identity and transgender lives from within the vocabularies and methodologies of communication studies.

Introduction, Leland G. Spencer IV

Part I: Human Communication
Chapter 1: Health Communication: Patient-Centered Communication: The Experiences of Transgender Adults, Kami Kosenko, Lance Rintamaki, and Kathleen Maness
Chapter 2: Organizational Communication: The Workplace Socialization of Gender Identity: A Phenomenological Exploration of Being Transgender at Work, Jenny Dixon
Chapter 3: Interpersonal Communication: Trans Interpersonal Support Needs, matthew heinz
Chapter 4: Family Communication: Families’ Experiences with Transgender Identity and Transition: A Family Stress Perspective, Kristen M. Norwood and Pamela J. Lannutti
Chapter 5: Intercultural Communication: Pushing Boundaries: Toward the Development of a Model for Transing Communication in (Inter)cultural Contexts, Gust A. Yep, Sage E. Russo, and Jace Allen

Part II: Media
Chapter 6: News: What’s in a Name? Transgender Identity, Metareporting and the Misgendering of Chelsea Manning, Jamie C. Capuzza
Chapter 7: Television: The Provisional Acknowledgement of Identity Claims in Televised Documentary, E. Tristan Booth
Chapter 8: Film: Becoming One of the Girls/Guys: Distancing Transgender Representations in Popular Film Comedies, Lucy J. Miller
Chapter 9: Visual Communication: From Abomination to Indifference: A Visual Analysis of Transgender Stereotypes in the Media, Paul Martin Lester
Chapter 10: Social Media: Fleshy Metamorphosis: Temporal Pedagogies of Transsexual Counterpublics, Joshua Trey Barnett

Part III: Public and Rhetorical Communication
Chapter 11: Language: Traversing the Transcape: A Brief Etymological History of Trans* Terminology, Mary Alice Adams
Chapter 12: Religious Discourse: Coming Out, Bringing Out: God’s Love, Transgender Identity, and Difference, Leland G. Spencer IV
Chapter 13: Legal Discourse: The Trans-Exclusive Archives of U.S. Capital Punishment Rhetoric, Peter Odell Campbell and Cory Holding

Chapter 14: Public Memory: Historical Trans-cription: Struggling with Memory in Paris Is Burning, Thomas R. Dunn

[T]his book stands as a testament to how rich and challenging communication research in transgender studies can be once divorced from the limiting assumptions of gay and lesbian studies, paving a way forward as a new wave of public awareness draws attention to transgender issues in media and communication.