Julia T Wood
Biographic Data
| ID | 117888 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia T Wood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia T |
| FAMILY NAME | Wood |
| SIGNATURE | WOOD J T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-8484-066X |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 263 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
On the Eve of Women's Studies in Communication 's 40 Year Anniversary
It is worthwhile to reflect on the naming of Women's Studies in Communication, which was launched nearly 40 years ago when the field of communication was just beginning to take women and women's is
Repeating History and Learning From It: What Can SlutWalks Teach Us About Feminism
SlutWalks, a form of feminist protest objecting to the use of women's appearance as an explanation or excuse for rape, has produced a range of responses from feminists. Some praise the protests for energizing contemporary feminism, and others deride them as objectifying, racially insensitive, and frivolous. We argue that controversy over SlutWalks is grounded in long-standing conflicts within feminism over the proper focus for feminist political …
We're Not Going to Have This Conversation, But You Get It ”: Black Mother–Daughter Communication About Sexual Relations
Twenty self-identified Black women ages 19 to 22 recalled the content and emotional tone of conversations about sex they had with their mothers. A majority of participants did not recall a sustained conversation about sex. Rather, they recollected fragmented, random, and often context-free comments their mothers made about sex. Three themes emerged from analysis of interviews: (a) negative messages, (b) feelings of discomfort, and (c) mother as r…
Which Ruler Do We Use? Theorizing the Division of Domestic Labor
Alberts, Tracy, and Trethewey move theorizing forward by integrating multiple existing theories to render a broader explanatory account of men's and women's typically different investments in domestic labor (2011, this issue). However, Alberts et al. appear to endorse a particular and arbitrary standard for domestic labor when they move from identifying causes of heterosexual partners' typically unequal investment in domestic labor to ascribing v…
The Sage Handbook of Gender and Communication
'The SAGE Handbook of Gender and Communication' begins from the premise that gender is, at once, an aspect of both individual identity and of social structure that dramatically and relentlessly shapes individual and collective life. Leading scholars review and evaluate the state of research on the topic
The Personal is Still Political: Embodied Politics in Third Wave Feminism
A close reading of essays by third wave feminists reveals that they privilege embodied politics, which are personal acts that aim to provoke change by exercising and resisting power in local sites. While respecting their emphasis on everyday politics, we note that third wavers seem naïve about the importance of juridical power and less than fully informed about connections between embodied politics and previous feminist movements, particularly th…
Monsters and victims: Male felons' accounts of intimate partner violence
Previous research on men who commit intimate partner violence has addressed two questions: (1) how can researchers and clinicians classify men's accounts of intimate partner violence?, and (2) do men who engage in intimate partner violence subscribe to particular codes of manhood? The present study linked these two questions by asking how men account for their own intimate partner violence and how their accounts draw upon understandings of manhoo…
Speaking of Marital Communication: The Marriage between Theory and Practice
The Normalization of Violence in Heterosexual Romantic Relationships: Women's Narratives of Love and Violence
Inductive analysis of in-depth interviews with 20 heterosexual women who had been in violent romantic relationships illuminated women's use of gender and romance narratives to make sense of violent relationships. All participants placed themselves within western culture's primary gender narrative, which prescribes and normalizes dominance and superiority for men and deference and dependence for women. Participants also relied on romance narrative…
He was Our Child from the Moment We Walked in that Room: Entrance Stories of Adoptive Parents
Adoptive parents engage in a complicated process of weaving entrance stories that construct the meaning of how their children were born, separated from birth parents, and integrated into their adoptive families. To understand adoptive parents' entrance stories, in-depth interviews were conducted with 18 adoptive parents. Thematic analysis revealed five interactive themes that resonate in the entrance stories told by adoptive parents: dialectical …
An Exchange About Exchange: A Reply to Bernard Murstein
Not appreciating that acting in ways consistent with exchange principles is not synonymous with acting out of an exchange framework, Murstein misrepresented Wood's work
Ethics, Justice, and the “Private Sphere”
Issues of family justice, in particular--from child custody and terms of divorce to physical and sexual abuse of wives and children--have become increasingly visible and pressing, and are commanding increasing attention from police and court systems. There is clearly a major justice crisis' in contemporary society arising from issues of gender (Okin, 1989, p. 7). This essay is a first effort to explore an issue that has troubled me for years, but…
Clarifying the issues
Confronting Relationship Challenges
For Better, For Worse, For Richer, For Poorer - Steve Duck and Julia T Wood The Rough and the Smooth of Relationships Shame and Anger in Personal Relationships - Suzanne M Retzinger Having and Managing Enemies - Jacqueline P Wiseman and Steve Duck A Very Challenging Relationship Family Reconfiguring Following Divorce - Marilyn Coleman and Lawrence H Ganong Codependency - Paul H Wright and Katherine D Wright Personality Syndrome or Relational Proc…
Under-studied relationships: Off the Beaten Track
A full understanding of relationship processes must include consideration of theoretically inconvenient and/or socially disfavored instances as well as those whose value and importance, traditionally, have been acknowledged in research. "Moving off the beaten track," Under-Studied Relationships begins to rectify existing scholarship's tendency to ignore the diverse and emergent forms of relationships that are increasingly evident in modern societ…
The Part is Not the Whole: Weaving Diversity into the Study of Relationships
Future research should include a fuller range of relationships than have been studied to date. Investigating diverse relationships would increase understanding of specific human associations and would advance development and testing of broad theories of relationships
Feminist Scholarship and the Study of Relationships
This article explores intersections between research on personal and social relationships, on the one hand, and feminist study, on the other. Focused on the means and effects of social constructions of gender, feminist enquiry clarifies how gender affects interaction processes and participants' and researchers' interpretations of them. This article outlines key facets of feminist scholarship and shows how they complement, extend and revise resear…
Who Cares? Women, Care, and Culture: Women, Care, and Culture
At a time when studies suggest the average American woman spends seventeen years caring for children and eighteen years caring for aging parents, Julia T. Wood examines how culture creates and sustains our definitions of caring, determines who cares along gender lines, and assigns the diminished value that caring has in our society.Wood argues that America s expanding need for caring is currently being met at an unacceptably high cost to caregive…
In a different mode: Masculine styles of communicating closeness
A number of contributors to Journal of Applied Communication Research have demonstrated communication research and theory can inform practical conduct in sundry situations. Less addressed has been the pragmatic potential of research to reform its own practice. Believing research is ideally self‐reflexive, we apply principles of scholarly inquiry to evaluate knowledge about gender and communication in close relationships. We document a prevalent b…
Gender and Moral Voice: Moving from Woman's Nature to Standpoint Epistemology
1992). Gender and Moral Voice: Moving from Woman's Nature to Standpoint Epistemology. Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 1-24
Gender and the Development of Self: Inclusive Pedagogy in Interpersonal Communication
Feminist Scholarship in Communication: Consensus, Diversity, and Conversation among Researchers
Report of the 1986 Conference on Gender and Communication Research
(1986). Report of the 1986 Conference on Gender and Communication Research. Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 89-93
Different Voices in Relationship Crises: An Extension of Gilligan's Theory
Report on the 1985 Conference on Gender and Communication Research
The Normalization of Violence in Heterosexual Romantic Relationships: Women's Narratives of Love and Violence
Inductive analysis of in-depth interviews with 20 heterosexual women who had been in violent romantic relationships illuminated women's use of gender and romance narratives to make sense of violent relationships. All participants placed themselves within western culture's primary gender narrative, which prescribes and normalizes dominance and superiority for men and deference and dependence for women. Participants also relied on romance narrative…
Monsters and victims: Male felons' accounts of intimate partner violence
Previous research on men who commit intimate partner violence has addressed two questions: (1) how can researchers and clinicians classify men's accounts of intimate partner violence?, and (2) do men who engage in intimate partner violence subscribe to particular codes of manhood? The present study linked these two questions by asking how men account for their own intimate partner violence and how their accounts draw upon understandings of manhoo…
He was Our Child from the Moment We Walked in that Room: Entrance Stories of Adoptive Parents
Adoptive parents engage in a complicated process of weaving entrance stories that construct the meaning of how their children were born, separated from birth parents, and integrated into their adoptive families. To understand adoptive parents' entrance stories, in-depth interviews were conducted with 18 adoptive parents. Thematic analysis revealed five interactive themes that resonate in the entrance stories told by adoptive parents: dialectical …
Gender and Moral Voice: Moving from Woman's Nature to Standpoint Epistemology
1992). Gender and Moral Voice: Moving from Woman's Nature to Standpoint Epistemology. Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 1-24
The Personal is Still Political: Embodied Politics in Third Wave Feminism
A close reading of essays by third wave feminists reveals that they privilege embodied politics, which are personal acts that aim to provoke change by exercising and resisting power in local sites. While respecting their emphasis on everyday politics, we note that third wavers seem naïve about the importance of juridical power and less than fully informed about connections between embodied politics and previous feminist movements, particularly th…
Feminist Scholarship and the Study of Relationships
This article explores intersections between research on personal and social relationships, on the one hand, and feminist study, on the other. Focused on the means and effects of social constructions of gender, feminist enquiry clarifies how gender affects interaction processes and participants' and researchers' interpretations of them. This article outlines key facets of feminist scholarship and shows how they complement, extend and revise resear…
Repeating History and Learning From It: What Can SlutWalks Teach Us About Feminism
SlutWalks, a form of feminist protest objecting to the use of women's appearance as an explanation or excuse for rape, has produced a range of responses from feminists. Some praise the protests for energizing contemporary feminism, and others deride them as objectifying, racially insensitive, and frivolous. We argue that controversy over SlutWalks is grounded in long-standing conflicts within feminism over the proper focus for feminist political …
Clarifying the issues
We're Not Going to Have This Conversation, But You Get It ”: Black Mother–Daughter Communication About Sexual Relations
Twenty self-identified Black women ages 19 to 22 recalled the content and emotional tone of conversations about sex they had with their mothers. A majority of participants did not recall a sustained conversation about sex. Rather, they recollected fragmented, random, and often context-free comments their mothers made about sex. Three themes emerged from analysis of interviews: (a) negative messages, (b) feelings of discomfort, and (c) mother as r…
The Part is Not the Whole: Weaving Diversity into the Study of Relationships
Future research should include a fuller range of relationships than have been studied to date. Investigating diverse relationships would increase understanding of specific human associations and would advance development and testing of broad theories of relationships
Sexists, racists, and other classes of classifiers: Form and function of “…Ist” accusations
An “. . . ist” accusation indicts an individual as a racist, sexist, or other “. . . ist” whose thoughts and/or acts discriminate on the basis of class membership. The self‐reflexively paradoxical structure of “. . . ist” accusations precludes refutation, but response is possible. Pragmatic and moral implications of alternative responses to “. . . ist” accusations are evaluated
Ethics, Justice, and the “Private Sphere”
Issues of family justice, in particular--from child custody and terms of divorce to physical and sexual abuse of wives and children--have become increasingly visible and pressing, and are commanding increasing attention from police and court systems. There is clearly a major justice crisis' in contemporary society arising from issues of gender (Okin, 1989, p. 7). This essay is a first effort to explore an issue that has troubled me for years, but…
Speaking of Marital Communication: The Marriage between Theory and Practice
Gender and the Development of Self: Inclusive Pedagogy in Interpersonal Communication
Different Voices in Relationship Crises: An Extension of Gilligan's Theory
Feminist Scholarship in Communication: Consensus, Diversity, and Conversation among Researchers
Leading in purposive discussions: A study of adaptive behavior
The need to adapt behaviors appropriately to situational constraints and particular members is one aspect of leadership that has received minimal attention from previous research. This study examined the distributional structures of leaders' comments in discussions with differing purposes in an attempt to determine whether leaders adapt their oral behaviors to meet varying goals and to compensate for failures in previous meetings. It was conclude…
Leading in purposive discussions: A study of adaptive behavior
The need to adapt behaviors appropriately to situational constraints and particular members is one aspect of leadership that has received minimal attention from previous research. This study examined the distributional structures of leaders' comments in discussions with differing purposes in an attempt to determine whether leaders adapt their oral behaviors to meet varying goals and to compensate for failures in previous meetings. It was conclude…
Sexists, racists, and other classes of classifiers: Form and function of “…Ist” accusations
An “. . . ist” accusation indicts an individual as a racist, sexist, or other “. . . ist” whose thoughts and/or acts discriminate on the basis of class membership. The self‐reflexively paradoxical structure of “. . . ist” accusations precludes refutation, but response is possible. Pragmatic and moral implications of alternative responses to “. . . ist” accusations are evaluated
Rethinking Research on Gender and Communication: An Introduction to the Issues
Report on the 1984 Conference on Gender and Communication Research
Report on the 1985 Conference on Gender and Communication Research
Report of the 1986 Conference on Gender and Communication Research
(1986). Report of the 1986 Conference on Gender and Communication Research. Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 89-93
Different Voices in Relationship Crises: An Extension of Gilligan's Theory
Feminist Scholarship in Communication: Consensus, Diversity, and Conversation among Researchers
Gender and the Development of Self: Inclusive Pedagogy in Interpersonal Communication
Gender and Moral Voice: Moving from Woman's Nature to Standpoint Epistemology
1992). Gender and Moral Voice: Moving from Woman's Nature to Standpoint Epistemology. Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 1-24
In a different mode: Masculine styles of communicating closeness
A number of contributors to Journal of Applied Communication Research have demonstrated communication research and theory can inform practical conduct in sundry situations. Less addressed has been the pragmatic potential of research to reform its own practice. Believing research is ideally self‐reflexive, we apply principles of scholarly inquiry to evaluate knowledge about gender and communication in close relationships. We document a prevalent b…
Who Cares? Women, Care, and Culture: Women, Care, and Culture
At a time when studies suggest the average American woman spends seventeen years caring for children and eighteen years caring for aging parents, Julia T. Wood examines how culture creates and sustains our definitions of caring, determines who cares along gender lines, and assigns the diminished value that caring has in our society.Wood argues that America s expanding need for caring is currently being met at an unacceptably high cost to caregive…
Under-studied relationships: Off the Beaten Track
A full understanding of relationship processes must include consideration of theoretically inconvenient and/or socially disfavored instances as well as those whose value and importance, traditionally, have been acknowledged in research. "Moving off the beaten track," Under-Studied Relationships begins to rectify existing scholarship's tendency to ignore the diverse and emergent forms of relationships that are increasingly evident in modern societ…
The Part is Not the Whole: Weaving Diversity into the Study of Relationships
Future research should include a fuller range of relationships than have been studied to date. Investigating diverse relationships would increase understanding of specific human associations and would advance development and testing of broad theories of relationships
Feminist Scholarship and the Study of Relationships
This article explores intersections between research on personal and social relationships, on the one hand, and feminist study, on the other. Focused on the means and effects of social constructions of gender, feminist enquiry clarifies how gender affects interaction processes and participants' and researchers' interpretations of them. This article outlines key facets of feminist scholarship and shows how they complement, extend and revise resear…
Confronting Relationship Challenges
For Better, For Worse, For Richer, For Poorer - Steve Duck and Julia T Wood The Rough and the Smooth of Relationships Shame and Anger in Personal Relationships - Suzanne M Retzinger Having and Managing Enemies - Jacqueline P Wiseman and Steve Duck A Very Challenging Relationship Family Reconfiguring Following Divorce - Marilyn Coleman and Lawrence H Ganong Codependency - Paul H Wright and Katherine D Wright Personality Syndrome or Relational Proc…
Clarifying the issues
An Exchange About Exchange: A Reply to Bernard Murstein
Not appreciating that acting in ways consistent with exchange principles is not synonymous with acting out of an exchange framework, Murstein misrepresented Wood's work
Ethics, Justice, and the “Private Sphere”
Issues of family justice, in particular--from child custody and terms of divorce to physical and sexual abuse of wives and children--have become increasingly visible and pressing, and are commanding increasing attention from police and court systems. There is clearly a major justice crisis' in contemporary society arising from issues of gender (Okin, 1989, p. 7). This essay is a first effort to explore an issue that has troubled me for years, but…
The Normalization of Violence in Heterosexual Romantic Relationships: Women's Narratives of Love and Violence
Inductive analysis of in-depth interviews with 20 heterosexual women who had been in violent romantic relationships illuminated women's use of gender and romance narratives to make sense of violent relationships. All participants placed themselves within western culture's primary gender narrative, which prescribes and normalizes dominance and superiority for men and deference and dependence for women. Participants also relied on romance narrative…
He was Our Child from the Moment We Walked in that Room: Entrance Stories of Adoptive Parents
Adoptive parents engage in a complicated process of weaving entrance stories that construct the meaning of how their children were born, separated from birth parents, and integrated into their adoptive families. To understand adoptive parents' entrance stories, in-depth interviews were conducted with 18 adoptive parents. Thematic analysis revealed five interactive themes that resonate in the entrance stories told by adoptive parents: dialectical …
Speaking of Marital Communication: The Marriage between Theory and Practice
Monsters and victims: Male felons' accounts of intimate partner violence
Previous research on men who commit intimate partner violence has addressed two questions: (1) how can researchers and clinicians classify men's accounts of intimate partner violence?, and (2) do men who engage in intimate partner violence subscribe to particular codes of manhood? The present study linked these two questions by asking how men account for their own intimate partner violence and how their accounts draw upon understandings of manhoo…
The Personal is Still Political: Embodied Politics in Third Wave Feminism
A close reading of essays by third wave feminists reveals that they privilege embodied politics, which are personal acts that aim to provoke change by exercising and resisting power in local sites. While respecting their emphasis on everyday politics, we note that third wavers seem naïve about the importance of juridical power and less than fully informed about connections between embodied politics and previous feminist movements, particularly th…
The Sage Handbook of Gender and Communication
'The SAGE Handbook of Gender and Communication' begins from the premise that gender is, at once, an aspect of both individual identity and of social structure that dramatically and relentlessly shapes individual and collective life. Leading scholars review and evaluate the state of research on the topic
Psychology (23 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (7 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Engineering (5 works)