This book reconsiders organizational and managerial communication theories, research, and practice from a feminist standpoint. It looks at theoretical analyses that reconceptualize and extend boundaries in our thinking about work and organizing processes; presents women's voices through interview excerpts, poems, diary entries, and stories and explores the ways in which these concrete details of ordinary lives represent missing facets of our organizational and managerial communication work; and contains chapters that rewrite organizational and managerial constructs.

Preface - Patrice M. Buzzanell
Introduction: In Medias Res - Patrice M. Buzzanell
PART ONE: CONFRONTING OUR PAST
Communication, Organization, and the Public Sphere: A Feminist Perspective - Dennis K. Mumby
Between the Generalized and the Concrete Other: Approaching Organizational Ethics From Feminist Perspectives - Tanni Haas and Stanley Deetz
Organizational Socialization: A Feminist Standpoint Approach - Connie Bullis and Karen Rohrbauck Stout
Rethinking Negotiation: Feminist Views of Communication and Exchange - Linda L. Putnam and Deborah M. Kolb
PART TWO: RETHINKING PRESENT PROCESSES
Revisioning Control: A Feminist Critique of Disciplined Bodies - Angela Trethewey
Walking the High Wire: Leadership Theorizing, Daily Acts, and Tensions - Marlene G. Fine and Patrice M. Buzzanell
A Feminist Reframing of Stress: Rose¿s Story - Marifran Mattson, Robin Patric Clair, Pamela A. Chapman Sanger, and Adrianne Dennis Kunkel
PART THREE: AUTHORING OUR FUTURE
"Learning the Ropes": A Black Feminist Standpoint Analysis - Brenda J. Allen
The Promise and Practice of the New Career and Social Contract: Illusions Exposed and Suggestions for Reform - Patrice M. Buzzanell
Chaos Theory and the Glass Ceiling - Cindy Reuther and Gail T. Fairhurst
CONCLUDING CHAPTER
Dialoguing - Patrice M. Buzzanell
References
Index
About the Contributors