Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: The Politics of making meaning: The field reconsidered -- Male to female as .... is to ....: a guided tour of five feminist frameworks for communication studies -- The Politics of difference: race, class and women's communication -- Accounting for others: feminism and representation -- Beyond the field's boundaries: Theorizing through the body -- Harassment and everyday life -- The History and structure of women's alternative media -- Pornography's active subordination of women: radical feminists re-claim speech rights -- Women's revolutionary place -- Case studies in making meaning: Big differences on the small screen: race, class, gender, feminine beauty and the characters at Frank's place -- Mary Ann Shadd Cary and the legacy of African-American Women Journalists -- The Contribution of Chinese American Women's identity -- Women's narratives in a New York Puerto Rican community -- Telling stories about reality: Women's responses to a workplace organizing campaign --