Beyond Gender Binaries

"Beyond Gender Binaries is the gender and communication textbook for this millennium. It challenges tacit, taken-for-granted constructions by centering an understanding of gender as multiple, diverse, and open to self-definition and transformation. Cindy Griffin tackles the most important topics in gender and communication studies today and does so with attention to the way that people of diverse identities and experiences are impacted and are responding to make their social worlds more livable."--Sara L. McKinnon, author of Gendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics "Cindy Griffin invites readers to consider the complexities of our intersectional identities, how we communicate through and about them, and how we might practice more ethical symbolic modes of sharing our lives with others. This textbook's commitment to intersectional theories and examples provides a strong foundation upon which instructors can create their own unique courses in communication and gender."--Isaac West, Professor of Communication Studies, Vanderbilt University