Reproducing and Transgressing Masculinity: A Rhetorical Analysis of Women Interacting With Digital Photographs of Thomas Beatie

Landau, Jamie

doi:10.1080/07491409.2012.724527

Cited by 15 publications

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“…Our study extends literature that analyzes health discourses about midwives (Lay, 2000;Lay, Wahlstrom, & Brown, 1996;Spoel, 2007Spoel, , 2008, breastfeeding (Koerber, 2006;Rose, 2012), and pregnancy (Dobris & White-Mills, 2006;Kroløkke, 2010;Landau, 2012). Public communication about doulas shapes the lay audience of expectant parents' perceptions about doulas and their health decisions in relation to childbirth.…”

Section: Public Communicationsupporting

confidence: 52%

Designing public communication about doulas

Kuehl

Anderson

2015

Commun. Des. Q. Rev

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Expectant parents use health communication messaging to make decisions about their childbirth plans. Recently, women have increasingly chosen to use doulas, or people who provide nonmedical support during childbirth. This essay analyzes how a hospital designed public communication through promotional efforts regarding their no-cost, volunteer doula program. We use rhetorical analysis to analyze 19 promotional texts. By analyzing these materials through the rhetorical method of presence and absence, we found that the health discourse related to the doula program gave presence to expectant mothers. Additionally, the benefi ts of doulas, especially in relation to fathers or partners, remained absent in promoting the volunteer doula program. Through specifi c communication design recommendations, we focus on how to improve this communication to increase the use of doulas in our community, and in other communities. We conclude with implications and limitations of the study. Context of a Community Hospital's Volunteer Doula ProgramIn fall 2011, the local hospital created the volunteer doula program in response to focus groups of community women who requested this service. It was the fi rst free labor and delivery doula program in the state and the fi rst free post-partum doula program in the United States. This study to evaluate the program was approved through the South Dakota State University institutional review board, IRB-1303003-EXM.This case study is part of a collaboration between our interdisciplinary research team and our community's local hospital. In this way, the project took a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach and blended multiple methodologies, including rhetorical

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Section: Public Communicationsupporting

confidence: 52%

Designing public communication about doulas

Kuehl

Anderson

2015

Commun. Des. Q. Rev

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“…Many of the articles we analysed continue a problematic tradition of marginalizing queer and trans people (Fejes and Petrich 1993;Gross 2001;Walters 2003;Landau 2009Landau , 2012. In particular, newspaper coverage routinely pushed queer and trans identities to the margins while reifying Christian identities as central, neutral and normal.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…For Sloop, mainstream media outlets invite scholars' scrutiny because these communication outlets so often 'close off alternatives, reiterating norms that lead to exclusion and punishment ' (2004: 24). Like Sloop, Bernadette Barker-Plummer (2013), Jamie Capuzza (2015), Bonnie Dow (1999Dow ( , 2004 and Jamie Landau (2009Landau ( , 2012 have offered important critiques of the ways in which news reporting often disciplines gendered and sexualized bodies. The following analysis builds on this important line of enquiry.…”

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confidence: 98%

Rhetorics of incommensurability: Disarticulating queer Christianity in mainstream news coverage of the Soulforce Equality Ride

Spencer

Barnett

2016

Queer Studies in Media &Amp; Popular Culture

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In this article, we present a critical rhetorical analysis of mainstream news coverage of the Soulforce Equality Ride, an annual bus tour composed of mostly queer and trans Christian students who protest Christian colleges and universities with antiqueer or anti-trans policies. We argue that much mainstream news coverage of the Equality Ride rhetorically functions to disarticulate queer and Christian identities by: marginalizing the activists, overemphasizing the activists' arrests, and framing Christian colleges and universities as hospitable and welcoming environments for the activists. By disarticulating queer and Christian identities, the news stories KEYWORDS Soulforce Equality Ride Christianity queer politics rhetoric articulation news activism

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“…Indeed, images of STM permeate much of daily life through advertising, television, and film and, thus, can be examined for their rhetorical influences. Considered from a different vantage, RSSTM might examine what citizens do with such images by cropping, splicing, and circulating them in enacting distinctive rhetorics of their own (Landau, 2012). And the development of new technologies such as "mobile apps" (e.g., iCell®) that is accompanying the globalized expansion of on-line science education continues to muddy the lines along which explorations of "science education" and "science journalism" might be said to increasingly entail learning to recognize visual enactments rather than learning concepts.…”

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