Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-356) and index.
Introduction: Challenging Commonsense / Patrice M. Buzzanell, Helen Sterk, Lynn H. Turner -- When They Know Who We Are: The National Women's Music Festival Comes to Ball State University! / Marcy Meyer, Laura Shue O'Hara -- Revisiting Sexual Harassment in Academe: Using Feminist Ethical and Sensemaking Approaches for Analyzing Macrodiscourses and Micropractices of Sexual Harassment / Patrice M. Buzzanell -- Women, Men, and Changing Organizations: An Organizational Culture Examination of Gendered Experiences of Telecommuting / Annika Hylm -- Commentary: Feminist Scholarship: Lessons Learned and Possibilities Revealed / Connie Bullis -- Women Cancer Survivors: Making Meaning of Chronic Illness, Disability, and Alternative Medical Practices / Laura L. Ellingson -- The Defining of Menopause / Kelly Quintanilla, Nada Frazier Cano, Diana K. Ivy -- Consuming Breasts: Our Breasts, Our Selves / Patty Sotirin -- Reframing Communication During Gynecological Exams: A Feminist Virtue Ethic of Care Perspective / Maria Brann, Marifran Mattson -- Communication and Women's Health / Gary L. Kreps ; Metaphor in the Classroom: Reframing Traditional and Alternative Uses of Language for Feminist Transformation / From Transgression to Transformation: Negotiating the Opportunities and Tensions of Engaged Pedagogy in the Feminist Organizational Communication Classroom / Marcy Meyer -- Body Shape(ing) Discourse: Bakhtinian Intertextuality as a Tool for Studying Discourse and Relationships / Terri L. Russ -- Aggression in Intercultural Encounters: Reports by Male and Female Youth in an Ethnically Diverse School District / Marjorie A. Jaasma -- Feminist Classrooms / Rich West -- Entrepreneurial Mothers' Balance of Work and Family: Discursive Constructions of Time, Mothering, and Identity / Paige Edley -- Playground or Training Ground?: The Function of Talk in African American and European American Mother-Adolescent Daughter Dyads / Barbara A. Penington and Lynn H. Turner -- Masculinities and Violence Among Intimates: Stories About Male Abusers and Intervention Strategies / Jenn Fink, Charles Tucker -- The Pastiches of Gender and family Communication / Kathleen Galvin