3210 DEBUT FEMINIST ANALYSES OF CULTURAL DISCOURSES
8:45 – 10:00 Sunday, February 19 Enchantment F
Chair: Rachel Corell, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
- Disciplining Sex in Hollywood – A Critical Comparison between Blue Valentine and Black Swan* — Melanie Wolske, California State University Long Beach
- Representations of Gender Roles in the Kenyan Print Media: A Critical Discourse Analysis of “Saturday Nation’s” Mantalk* — Consolata Mutua, University of New Mexico
- The Rhetoric of Environmental Campaigns: A Feminist Critique* – Lindsay D. Scott, California State University Northridge
- Gender Fantasies and the Rearticulation of the Fairy Tale: The Conservative Construction of the Prince, Princess and the Purity Ball* — Lauren Patton, California State University Long Beach
Respondent: Emily Plec, Western Oregon University
*Debut Paper
3310 FEMINIST ANALYSES OF CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL AND LEGAL DISCOURSES
10:15 – 11:30 Sunday, February 19 Enchantment F
Chair: Alyssa Samek, University of Maryland College Park
- In Defense of Women’s Rights: A Rhetorical Analysis of Judicial Dissent — Katie L. Gibson, California State University Long Beach
- Slaying the Serpent: A Rhetorical Analysis of Gendered Sentencing in a Capital Murder Trial — Mary E. Domenico, University of Colorado Denver
- Every Rose Has Its Thorn: A Critical Perspective on Amnesty International’s Campaign Against Female Genital Mutilation* – Laura M. Puhl, San Diego State University
- Fraudulent Frontierswoman: Debunking Myth and Metaphor in Sarah Palin’s Alaska — Julia Moore, San Diego State University
Respondent: Cindy Griffin, Colorado State University
* Debut Paper
3510 TOP FOUR PAPERS IN ORGANIZATION FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN AND COMMUNICATION
1:00 – 2:15 Sunday, February 19 Enchantment F
Chair: Diane M. Blair, California State University Fresno
- “Don’t Drop the Soap”: Organizational Irrationality in the Repeal of the U.S. Military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Policy — Craig Rich, Loyola Marymount University – Julie Kalil Schutten, Richard A. Rogers, Northern Arizona University
- Standing in Her Shoes: Transnational Politics and Gendered Rhetoric in U.S. Asylum Policy for Chinese Opposing Population Control — Sara L. McKinnon, University of Wisconsin Madison
- More than Women-Identified Women: Unpacking Lesbian-Feminist Coalitional Subjectivities in the 1970s* – Alyssa A. Samek, University of Maryland
- Consuming Flesh, Consuming Self: PETA and the Staging of the Abject** — Sasha Solomonov, University of Utah
Respondent: Valeria Fabj, Lynn University
*Top Student Paper, Organization for Research on Women and Communication
**Top Debut Paper, Organization for Research on Women and Communication
3610 THEORIZING FEMINIST PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES
2:30 – 3:45 Sunday, February 19 Enchantment F
Chair: Kristen Cole, University of New Mexico
- How Do I Look?: Voyeurism and the Abject in the Academy — Cindy Griffin, Colorado State University – Jeremy Grossman, University of Georgia
- Dyslexia and Feminist Pedagogy: Dismantling the House of Cognitive Privilege — Julie Cosenza, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
- An Exploration of Otherness: Experiences of African-American Women Professors with Majority-Race Students — Eletra S. Gilchrist, University of Alabama Huntsville
- “I Would Actually Consider Myself a Feminist NOW!”: College Students’ Perceptions of Feminism and Critical Feminist Pedagogues as Conduits for Social Change — Amy N. Heuman, Stephen L. Mitchell, Texas Tech University
Respondent: Belle A. Edson, Arizona State University
3710 LA PALABRA: THE WORD IS A WOMAN
4:00 – 5:15 Sunday, February 19 Enchantment F
Jessica Helen Lopez and Jasmine Sena Cuffee are dos poetas whose compelling craft and fiercely dynamic performances speak to a higher truth, embracing a modern feminist perspective that captures the homegrown and grassroots power of slam poetry. Both Lopez and Cuffee tangle with socially-engaging themes such as gender equality, sex-positivity, cultural and geographical identity as well as chicanisma, familia and mixed heritage.
Chair: Hakim Bellamy, University of New Mexico
Poetas:
- Jasmine Sena Cuffee
- Jessica Helen Lopez
4113 WORKING AGAINST THE ODDS: WOMEN PIONEERS IN COMMUNICATION
8:00 – 9:15 Monday, February 20 Sendero III
“Working Against the Odds” is a hybrid project involving traditional video documentary and academic methodology. Central to the project’s success is its emphasis on the oral history interview, which explores decision-making processes on the part of women subjects and asks interviewees to describe the challenges they faced as graduate students and professors over the years. Very specifically, women were asked if some fields seemed more accepting of women, if others were totally off-limits to women, and if they ever considered quitting. Each scholar was also asked to describe her mentors, most difficult lessons, and changes in the field, particularly regarding opportunities and challenges for women. These insights proved useful in developing a project that not only tells the stories of the selected women scholars, but also makes larger arguments about women working in academia generally and in communication specifically.
The project received funding from NCA’s Special Project Fund and the Feminist Research Institute at the University of New Mexico.
Participants:
- Glenda R. Balas, University of New Mexico
- Jan Schuetz, University of New Mexico
4510 VOICE, EMBODIED AGENCY, AND RESISTANCE: THE REVOLUTIONARY POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITATIONS OF FEMINIST ARTISTIC EXPRESSIONS
3:45 – 5:00 Monday, February 20 Enchantment F
Chair: Jeremy Grossman, University of Georgia
- Embracing Hysteria, Eschewing Mainstream Labels: The Rhetorical Influence of Hip-Hop Lyrics in Feminist Discourse — Rachel Corell, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
- “Punk Feminism”: Remembering Ari Up and Poly Styrene as Punk Feminist Icons — Adam Perry, The Pennsylvania State University – Mia E. Briceño, The Pennsylvania State University
- Writing Rhymes for Broken Daughters: Embodied Resistance in the Poetry of Jasmine Mans — Jesus I. Valles, California State University Long Beach
- Women Traveling to Fulfillment: Self-Spirituality and Individual Agency in Film – Mariel D. Liceaga Piña, San Diego State University
Respondent: Marnel Niles, California State University Fresno
4610 THE PERILS AND POSSIBILITIES OF STRIVING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE WITHIN DOMINANT GENDERED DISCOURSES
5:15 – 6:30 Monday, February 20 Enchantment F
Chair: Mary E. Domenico, University of Colorado Denver
- Caring Work: Opening a Space of Possibility for Exploring Transnational Feminist Alliances Against Neoliberalism — Beverly Romero Natividad, University of Denver
- A Feminist Criticism of the Dichotomy: Subjugating Spirituality through the Rational Voice and the Spiritual Other — Tiffany Dykstra, Texas Tech University
- Popular Management Discourses: Troublesome Analyses of Gendering Strengths — Sarah Jane Blithe, University of Colorado Boulder
- The Paradox of Catharine Beecher: A Hierarchy of Hierarchies — Jasmine Zink, University of Montana
Respondent: Valerie Renegar, San Diego State University
5113 MOTHERS OF A MISSION: STRIVING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE ACADEMY AND BEYOND
8:30 – 9:45 Tuesday, February 21 Sendero III
- Dr. Mama Gone Digital: Online Social Media as Support and Social Change for Academic Mothers –Wendy K. Z. Anderson, Michigan Technological University — Kittie Grace, Hastings College
- Why I’m Not Taking a “Break”: Rethinking the Value of Mother/Scholars in our Academic Community — Maegan Parker Brooks, Independent Scholar—Denver, Colorado
- “Where’s the Baby?”: Negotiating Academic Motherhood in the American South – Lisa M. Corrigan, University of Arkansas
- Dispelling the Balance Myth — Sarah Jedd, University of Wisconsin Madison
