Lexington Books
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978-1-4985-0005-0 • Hardback • February 2015 • $147.00 • (£113.00)
978-1-4985-0007-4 • Paperback • November 2016 • $64.99 • (£50.00)
978-1-4985-0006-7 • eBook • February 2015 • $61.50 • (£47.00)
Leland G. Spencer is assistant professor in the Integrative Studies Department at Miami University.
Jamie C. Capuzza is professor in the Department of Communication and director of the Gender Studies Program at the University of Mount Union.
Introduction, Leland G. Spencer IVPart I: Human CommunicationChapter 1: Health Communication: Patient-Centered Communication: The Experiences of Transgender Adults, Kami Kosenko, Lance Rintamaki, and Kathleen ManessChapter 2: Organizational Communication: The Workplace Socialization of Gender Identity: A Phenomenological Exploration of Being Transgender at Work, Jenny DixonChapter 3: Interpersonal Communication: Trans Interpersonal Support Needs, matthew heinzChapter 4: Family Communication: Families’ Experiences with Transgender Identity and Transition: A Family Stress Perspective, Kristen M. Norwood and Pamela J. LannuttiChapter 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 AllenPart II: MediaChapter 6: News: What’s in a Name? Transgender Identity, Metareporting and the Misgendering of Chelsea Manning, Jamie C. CapuzzaChapter 7: Television: The Provisional Acknowledgement of Identity Claims in Televised Documentary, E. Tristan BoothChapter 8: Film: Becoming One of the Girls/Guys: Distancing Transgender Representations in Popular Film Comedies, Lucy J. MillerChapter 9: Visual Communication: From Abomination to Indifference: A Visual Analysis of Transgender Stereotypes in the Media, Paul Martin LesterChapter 10: Social Media: Fleshy Metamorphosis: Temporal Pedagogies of Transsexual Counterpublics, Joshua Trey BarnettPart III: Public and Rhetorical CommunicationChapter 11: Language: Traversing the Transcape: A Brief Etymological History of Trans* Terminology, Mary Alice AdamsChapter 12: Religious Discourse: Coming Out, Bringing Out: God’s Love, Transgender Identity, and Difference, Leland G. Spencer IVChapter 13: Legal Discourse: The Trans-Exclusive Archives of U.S. Capital Punishment Rhetoric, Peter Odell Campbell and Cory HoldingChapter 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.
— Journal of Communication
I experienced immense joy when I learned about Transgender Communication Studies: Histories, Trends, and Trajectories, an edited collection that isindeed ‘the first of its kind in the communication discipline.’ This collection offersa focused and sincere attempt to understand and advocate on behalf of transgender identitiesand experiences…. This collection will no longer allowcommunication scholars and journal editors to easily avoid these topics…. Continued efforts are thus vital to understand transgender identities and experiences; Transgender Communication Studies will contribute remarkably to these efforts.
— Women's Studies In Communication
One of the important things this book does is to acknowledge the significance of the coalition the LGBTQ acronym enacts while also pointing out that as important as understanding our similarities is, we must also attend to the ways in which we differ. It illustrates that although we may share some needs and goals, the contours of those needs and goals may diverge as a result of our specific situations. And so the various chapters in the book remind us that as we work together to effect social change—and to study those efforts—we need to move back and forth between attending to similarities and differences. We need to remember that our specific needs and goals might not be exactly analogous to people in similar, but different, situations, and we need to check in with one another to ensure that the coalition is working to the benefit of everyone and not just a few. This book makes that case for the LGBTQ community; I’m convinced it’s a lesson that’s important for all social movement activists—and for those of us who study them.
— QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking
Capuzza and Spencer have done a wonderful job putting together a collection of essays that explore transgender communication across the communication studies discipline. Building on burgeoning scholarship about transgender communication, the authors of the fourteen chapters offer original insights and plot a course for future research, importantly challenging scholars to take seriously the “T” in the LGBTIQQA acronym. Transgender Communication Studies: Histories, Trends, and Trajectories is essential reading for scholars and students interested in communication and gender identity.
-Sara Hayden, University of Montana
— Sara Hayden, University of Montana
“Capuzza and Spencer have assembled a radical and remarkable collection of essays that, when taken together, interrogate the meanings and experiences of transgender identity in relation to key communication contexts (e.g., interpersonal, health organizational, media, rhetorical) and topics (e.g., self-disclosure, intimacy, media representation, workplace protections).”
— Tony Adams, Northeastern Illinois University
• Winner, 2016 Distinguished Edited Book Award from the Applied Communication Division of NCA