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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.
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.
Queerly Remembered investigates the ways in which gay, lesbian,
bisexual, transgender, and queer (GLBTQ) individuals and
communities have increasingly turned to public tellings of their
ostensibly shared pasts in order to advocate for political, social,
and cultural change in the present. Much like nations,
institutions, and other minority groups before them, GLBTQ people
have found communicating their past(s)-particularly as expressed
through the concept of memory-a rich resource for leveraging
historical and contemporary opinions toward their cause. Drawing
from the interdisciplinary fields of rhetorical studies, memory
studies, gay and lesbian studies, and queer theory, Thomas R. Dunn
considers both the ephemeral tactics and monumental strategies that
GLBTQ communities have used to effect their queer persuasion. More
broadly this volume addresses the challenges and opportunities
posed by embracing historical representations of GLBTQ individuals
and communities as a political strategy. Particularly for a diverse
community whose past is marked by the traumas of the HIV/AIDS
pandemic, the forgetting and destruction of GLBTQ history, and the
sometimes-divisive representational politics of fluid,
intersectional identities, portraying a shared past is an exercise
fraught with conflict despite its potential rewards. Nonetheless,
by investigating rich rhetorical case studies through time and
across diverse artifacts-including monuments, memorials, statues,
media publications, gravestones, and textbooks-Queerly Remembered
reveals that our current queer "turn toward memory" is a complex,
enduring, and avowedly rich rhetorical undertaking.
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