Transgressing Feminist Theory and Discourse

Jennifer C. Dunn is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Public Culture at Dominican University, USA. Her research explores how media and popular culture represent gender and intersecting issues of identity. Her most recent publications include the journal article, "Going to Work at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch: Potentials of Rhetorical and Ethnographic Methods for Cultural Studies" (Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 2016) and her co-authored textbook, Pursuing Popular Culture: Methods for Researching the Everyday.Jimmie Manning is an Associate Professor of Communication Theory and Sexuality Studies at Northern Illinois University, USA. His research focuses on meaning-making in relationships. This research spans multiple contexts to understand how individuals, couples, families, organizations, and other cultural institutions attempt to define, support, control, limit, encourage, or otherwise negotiate relationships. He has accrued over 90 publications in outlets including Communication Monographs, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, and Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.

• 1. Introduction: Transgressing Feminist Discourses 2. (Inter)Disciplinary Transgressions: Feminism, Communication, and Critical Interdisciplinarity3. Rethinking Intersectionality as Fractal: Non-Linear, Intricate, and Infinite 4. Race, Dialogue, and Transgressing White Respectability 5. The Singular They and How it Works: A (More or Less) Structuralist Explanation of Transgender's Poststructuralist, Pronominal Revolution 6. Feminist Transgressions: Vulnerability, Bravery, and the Need for a More Imperfect Feminism 7. Trans-Exclusionary Discourse, White Feminist Failures, and the Women’s March on Washington, D.C. 8. Hate Politics: Immigration and Affect in Practice 9.Transgressing the Digital Terrain: Humor in Feminist Responses to Trolling 10. Sick Bodies in Healthcare Culture: Health Communication that Disciplines Female Bodies 11. Four Transgressive Acclamations to End Gender Violence 12. The Making of a Hallow Bahu (Indian Daughter-in-Law): Web of Influence on Bahu Disempowerment 13. "I’m Your Person": Television Narrates Female Friendships in the Workplace from Cagney and Lacey to Grey’s Anatomy