Beyond Gender Binaries: An Intersectional Orientation to Communication and IdentitiesBeyond Gender Binaries uses a feminist, intersectional, and invitational approach to understanding identities and how they relate to communication. Taking readers outside the familiar binary constructions of gender and identity, Cindy L. Griffin addresses—through a feminist intersectional lens—communication, identity, power and privilege, personhood and citizenship, safety in public and private spaces, and hegemony and colonialism. Twelve chapters focus on critical learning through careful exploration of key terms and concepts. Griffin illustrates these with historical and contemporary examples and provides concrete guides to intersectional approaches to communication. This textbook highlights not just the ways individuals, systems, structures, and institutions use communication to privilege particular identities discursively and materially, but also the myriad ways that communication can be used to disrupt privilege and respectfully acknowledge the nonbinary and intersectional nature of every person’s identity. Key features include:
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Contents
Intersectional Explorations of Discourses | 27 |
Individual and Collective Guilt | 60 |
PART II | 69 |
The Discourse | 80 |
Intersectional Approaches to Safety | 93 |
Intersectional Approaches to Safety | 119 |
Intersectional Discourses for Talking about | 143 |
Intersectional Approaches to Spaces for Learning | 169 |
Curriculum Matters | 187 |