5. Masculinity

Communicating Gender and Power

Communicating Power and Gender (Long Grove, IL:  Waveland Press, Inc., official publication date of April 7, 2011), 234 pages, ISBN:  978-1-57766-690-5, coauthored with Deborah Borisoff.


Masculinity as a Social and Symbolic Construction in the United States, India, Korea, and Germany: Issues When Creating Cross-Cultural Communication Research

2007 Distinguished Lecturer, Rudolph F. Verderber Distinguished Lecture Series
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“The Development of a Perceived Masculinity Scale” An Analysis of Masculinity

The Development of a Perceived Masculinity Scale1
James W. Chesebro and Koji Fuse
This essay posits that masculinity can be usefully understood from a communication perspective, and it specifically defines masculinity as a social and symbolic construct.  In this view, the meanings and associations attributed to masculinity are a product of the enduring images and characteristics people [...]