Rebecca J Meisenbach
Biographic Data
| ID | 1322150 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca J Meisenbach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca J |
| FAMILY NAME | Meisenbach |
| SIGNATURE | MEISENBACH R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6497-4280 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Exploring Stigma Communication About Urinary Tract Infections in the United States
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) have steadily increased in prevalence and severity among women in the United States and can lead to serious complications if left untreated. Yet, women are often reluctant to discuss such infections due to potential stigmatization. Indeed, UTI treatment and prevention often involves communication with intimate partners and physicians, and this communication can require stigma management. Further, stigma communicati…
“I AM a Feminist, but…”: Feminist Self-labeling, White Feminism, and Pageantry in the United States
Toward an intersectional communicology of stigma
In this article, I develop an intersectional communicology of stigma (ICS), in which stigma is conceptualized as a power-laden, materially and communicatively constituted process of devaluing those associated with negatively perceived differences tied to intertwined systems of oppression and privilege. From this approach, stigma does not exist outside of communication, that is, outside a power-laden language of relationships. Furthermore, stigma …
Understanding mobile use behavior, stigma and associated needs among female sex workers in Nepal: A qualitative study
Female sex workers (FSWs) in Nepal continue to disproportionately experience increased HIV risk alongside individual, social, and structural barriers to accessing and using health services. Innovative methods are needed to provide improved HIV prevention information and other health services for FSWs. Mobile health (mHealth) is a mechanism that can overcome structural and social barriers. Studies show that FSWs are increasingly using mobile phone…
Covid-19 Courtesy Stigma among Healthcare Providers in India: A Study of Stigma Management Communication and its Impact
In early 2020, the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic hit India, generating one of the highest rates of infection and death in the world. Meanwhile, healthcare workers experienced stigma and discrimination due to their association with COVID-19 patients. This study analyzed healthcare workers' experience of courtesy stigma in India, the communication strategies they used to manage stigma, and the impact on their mental health. A cross-sectional …
Racialized scripts of silence: How whiteness organizes silence as a response to social protest about racism in the United States
Communication research often sidelines and ignores racial dynamics in organizational practices and processes, even when considering social movements and protests over racism. The current interview-based project uses a critical lens to examine how a U.S. university employed a racialized script of silence in response to social protest about racism. We analyze how organizations maintain and promote whiteness through racialized discourses of bureaucr…
Expanding role boundary management theory: How volunteering highlights contextually shifting strategies and collapsing work–life role boundaries
Despite interest in expanding work–family research to focus on work–life issues, few scholars have addressed non-family life enrichment roles and their potential additional forms of and issues for boundary management. Using in-depth qualitative interviews, this study investigates the management of under-researched work–life boundaries by focusing on how volunteers communicatively manage the volunteer role in light of work and home demands. The fi…
Professor Heather Höpfl, 1948–2014: Eine Gedenkschrift
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Reproducing whiteness through diversity: A critical discourse analysis of the pro-affirmative action amicus briefs in the Fisher case
Standpoints of Maternity Leave: Discourses of Temporality and Ability
Our standpoint analysis of 21 women in pink-collar occupations displays how these workers both adhere to and challenge maternity leave discourses by rhetorically positioning their leaves as time off and (dis)ability. They both acknowledge the advantages of and resist discourses of time and (dis)ability by constructing complicated, contradictory, and ironic knowledge that such language both secures their leaves and revokes their images as competen…
Emerging Patterns of Stigma Management Communication Strategies Among Burn Survivors and Relational Partners
Despite recent theorizing on stigma management relevant to interpersonal settings and health communication, few studies have considered how people make sense of and discursively manage stigma in daily interaction. Burn survivors and relational partners present a unique population of potentially stigmatized individuals. Using in-depth interviews from participants across the United States, this study used Meisenbach's stigma management communicatio…
Stigma Management Communication: A Theory and Agenda for Applied Research on How Individuals Manage Moments of Stigmatized Identity
Despite increasing interest in the negative impact of stigma, a comprehensive theoretical frame to the discursive management of stigma is lacking. This paper advances stigma research by integrating disparate areas of stigma research and highlighting the co-constructed and materially influenced process of stigma management to create a theory and typology of stigma management communication. It is argued that stigma is shifting and determined by bot…
The Female Breadwinner: Phenomenological Experience and Gendered Identity in Work/Family Spaces
We Do Babies! The Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs of Pregnancy and Parenting in the Academy
The most awkward moment at that faculty meeting occurred when a certain senior colleague in the department replied, Well, when my wife was pregnant, she gave birth during spring break and didn't miss a day of class. Despite backstage reassurances that these were unrealistic expectations, those who were pregnant experienced an unspoken pressure that failure to minimize the interference of impending parenthood on their careers threatened public imp…
They Allowed”: Pentadic Mapping of Women's Maternity Leave Discourse as Organizational Rhetoric
This study expands applications of Burkean pentadic mapping from traditional rhetorical texts, such as speeches and written documents, to interview discourses. This methodological adaptation assists scholars in understanding openings and closings, that is, opportunities and constraints, in discourses in a variety of communication areas. In particular, pentadic mapping is a way of discovering discursive paths for empowerment and transformation. Th…
SaveDisney.com and Activist Challenges: A Habermasian Perspective on Corporate Legitimacy
This study develops a Habermasian framework for evaluating and generating challenges to organizational legitimacy. The launch of the SaveDisney.com web site represents an innovative example of an Internet-based activist public successfully challenging a corporation's legitimacy and advocating for changes in corporate governance. Legitimacy research has focused on strategies used by organizations to build legitimacy (e.g., Dowling & Pfeffer, 1975 …
Blurring the Boundaries: Historical Developments and Future Directions in Organizational Rhetoric
This chapter provides a concise but thorough view of organizational rhetoric. We review how work in organizational rhetoric spans research on propaganda analysis, organizational communication, public relations, and rhetorical social movements, highlighting connections and differences among these perspectives and outlining what organizational rhetoric has borrowed from and contributed to each. We then consider issues of concern to organizational r…
The Female Breadwinner: Phenomenological Experience and Gendered Identity in Work/Family Spaces
Expanding role boundary management theory: How volunteering highlights contextually shifting strategies and collapsing work–life role boundaries
Despite interest in expanding work–family research to focus on work–life issues, few scholars have addressed non-family life enrichment roles and their potential additional forms of and issues for boundary management. Using in-depth qualitative interviews, this study investigates the management of under-researched work–life boundaries by focusing on how volunteers communicatively manage the volunteer role in light of work and home demands. The fi…
They Allowed”: Pentadic Mapping of Women's Maternity Leave Discourse as Organizational Rhetoric
This study expands applications of Burkean pentadic mapping from traditional rhetorical texts, such as speeches and written documents, to interview discourses. This methodological adaptation assists scholars in understanding openings and closings, that is, opportunities and constraints, in discourses in a variety of communication areas. In particular, pentadic mapping is a way of discovering discursive paths for empowerment and transformation. Th…
Reproducing whiteness through diversity: A critical discourse analysis of the pro-affirmative action amicus briefs in the Fisher case
We Do Babies! The Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs of Pregnancy and Parenting in the Academy
The most awkward moment at that faculty meeting occurred when a certain senior colleague in the department replied, Well, when my wife was pregnant, she gave birth during spring break and didn't miss a day of class. Despite backstage reassurances that these were unrealistic expectations, those who were pregnant experienced an unspoken pressure that failure to minimize the interference of impending parenthood on their careers threatened public imp…
Standpoints of Maternity Leave: Discourses of Temporality and Ability
Our standpoint analysis of 21 women in pink-collar occupations displays how these workers both adhere to and challenge maternity leave discourses by rhetorically positioning their leaves as time off and (dis)ability. They both acknowledge the advantages of and resist discourses of time and (dis)ability by constructing complicated, contradictory, and ironic knowledge that such language both secures their leaves and revokes their images as competen…
Toward an intersectional communicology of stigma
In this article, I develop an intersectional communicology of stigma (ICS), in which stigma is conceptualized as a power-laden, materially and communicatively constituted process of devaluing those associated with negatively perceived differences tied to intertwined systems of oppression and privilege. From this approach, stigma does not exist outside of communication, that is, outside a power-laden language of relationships. Furthermore, stigma …
Emerging Patterns of Stigma Management Communication Strategies Among Burn Survivors and Relational Partners
Despite recent theorizing on stigma management relevant to interpersonal settings and health communication, few studies have considered how people make sense of and discursively manage stigma in daily interaction. Burn survivors and relational partners present a unique population of potentially stigmatized individuals. Using in-depth interviews from participants across the United States, this study used Meisenbach's stigma management communicatio…
SaveDisney.com and Activist Challenges: A Habermasian Perspective on Corporate Legitimacy
This study develops a Habermasian framework for evaluating and generating challenges to organizational legitimacy. The launch of the SaveDisney.com web site represents an innovative example of an Internet-based activist public successfully challenging a corporation's legitimacy and advocating for changes in corporate governance. Legitimacy research has focused on strategies used by organizations to build legitimacy (e.g., Dowling & Pfeffer, 1975 …
Blurring the Boundaries: Historical Developments and Future Directions in Organizational Rhetoric
This chapter provides a concise but thorough view of organizational rhetoric. We review how work in organizational rhetoric spans research on propaganda analysis, organizational communication, public relations, and rhetorical social movements, highlighting connections and differences among these perspectives and outlining what organizational rhetoric has borrowed from and contributed to each. We then consider issues of concern to organizational r…
Blurring the Boundaries: Historical Developments and Future Directions in Organizational Rhetoric
This chapter provides a concise but thorough view of organizational rhetoric. We review how work in organizational rhetoric spans research on propaganda analysis, organizational communication, public relations, and rhetorical social movements, highlighting connections and differences among these perspectives and outlining what organizational rhetoric has borrowed from and contributed to each. We then consider issues of concern to organizational r…
SaveDisney.com and Activist Challenges: A Habermasian Perspective on Corporate Legitimacy
This study develops a Habermasian framework for evaluating and generating challenges to organizational legitimacy. The launch of the SaveDisney.com web site represents an innovative example of an Internet-based activist public successfully challenging a corporation's legitimacy and advocating for changes in corporate governance. Legitimacy research has focused on strategies used by organizations to build legitimacy (e.g., Dowling & Pfeffer, 1975 …
We Do Babies! The Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs of Pregnancy and Parenting in the Academy
The most awkward moment at that faculty meeting occurred when a certain senior colleague in the department replied, Well, when my wife was pregnant, she gave birth during spring break and didn't miss a day of class. Despite backstage reassurances that these were unrealistic expectations, those who were pregnant experienced an unspoken pressure that failure to minimize the interference of impending parenthood on their careers threatened public imp…
They Allowed”: Pentadic Mapping of Women's Maternity Leave Discourse as Organizational Rhetoric
This study expands applications of Burkean pentadic mapping from traditional rhetorical texts, such as speeches and written documents, to interview discourses. This methodological adaptation assists scholars in understanding openings and closings, that is, opportunities and constraints, in discourses in a variety of communication areas. In particular, pentadic mapping is a way of discovering discursive paths for empowerment and transformation. Th…
The Female Breadwinner: Phenomenological Experience and Gendered Identity in Work/Family Spaces
Stigma Management Communication: A Theory and Agenda for Applied Research on How Individuals Manage Moments of Stigmatized Identity
Despite increasing interest in the negative impact of stigma, a comprehensive theoretical frame to the discursive management of stigma is lacking. This paper advances stigma research by integrating disparate areas of stigma research and highlighting the co-constructed and materially influenced process of stigma management to create a theory and typology of stigma management communication. It is argued that stigma is shifting and determined by bot…
Reproducing whiteness through diversity: A critical discourse analysis of the pro-affirmative action amicus briefs in the Fisher case
Standpoints of Maternity Leave: Discourses of Temporality and Ability
Our standpoint analysis of 21 women in pink-collar occupations displays how these workers both adhere to and challenge maternity leave discourses by rhetorically positioning their leaves as time off and (dis)ability. They both acknowledge the advantages of and resist discourses of time and (dis)ability by constructing complicated, contradictory, and ironic knowledge that such language both secures their leaves and revokes their images as competen…
Emerging Patterns of Stigma Management Communication Strategies Among Burn Survivors and Relational Partners
Despite recent theorizing on stigma management relevant to interpersonal settings and health communication, few studies have considered how people make sense of and discursively manage stigma in daily interaction. Burn survivors and relational partners present a unique population of potentially stigmatized individuals. Using in-depth interviews from participants across the United States, this study used Meisenbach's stigma management communicatio…
Professor Heather Höpfl, 1948–2014: Eine Gedenkschrift
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Expanding role boundary management theory: How volunteering highlights contextually shifting strategies and collapsing work–life role boundaries
Despite interest in expanding work–family research to focus on work–life issues, few scholars have addressed non-family life enrichment roles and their potential additional forms of and issues for boundary management. Using in-depth qualitative interviews, this study investigates the management of under-researched work–life boundaries by focusing on how volunteers communicatively manage the volunteer role in light of work and home demands. The fi…
Covid-19 Courtesy Stigma among Healthcare Providers in India: A Study of Stigma Management Communication and its Impact
In early 2020, the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic hit India, generating one of the highest rates of infection and death in the world. Meanwhile, healthcare workers experienced stigma and discrimination due to their association with COVID-19 patients. This study analyzed healthcare workers' experience of courtesy stigma in India, the communication strategies they used to manage stigma, and the impact on their mental health. A cross-sectional …
Racialized scripts of silence: How whiteness organizes silence as a response to social protest about racism in the United States
Communication research often sidelines and ignores racial dynamics in organizational practices and processes, even when considering social movements and protests over racism. The current interview-based project uses a critical lens to examine how a U.S. university employed a racialized script of silence in response to social protest about racism. We analyze how organizations maintain and promote whiteness through racialized discourses of bureaucr…
Understanding mobile use behavior, stigma and associated needs among female sex workers in Nepal: A qualitative study
Female sex workers (FSWs) in Nepal continue to disproportionately experience increased HIV risk alongside individual, social, and structural barriers to accessing and using health services. Innovative methods are needed to provide improved HIV prevention information and other health services for FSWs. Mobile health (mHealth) is a mechanism that can overcome structural and social barriers. Studies show that FSWs are increasingly using mobile phone…
Exploring Stigma Communication About Urinary Tract Infections in the United States
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) have steadily increased in prevalence and severity among women in the United States and can lead to serious complications if left untreated. Yet, women are often reluctant to discuss such infections due to potential stigmatization. Indeed, UTI treatment and prevention often involves communication with intimate partners and physicians, and this communication can require stigma management. Further, stigma communicati…
“I AM a Feminist, but…”: Feminist Self-labeling, White Feminism, and Pageantry in the United States
Toward an intersectional communicology of stigma
In this article, I develop an intersectional communicology of stigma (ICS), in which stigma is conceptualized as a power-laden, materially and communicatively constituted process of devaluing those associated with negatively perceived differences tied to intertwined systems of oppression and privilege. From this approach, stigma does not exist outside of communication, that is, outside a power-laden language of relationships. Furthermore, stigma …
Sociology (14 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (5 works)