Joan Faber Mcalister
Biographic Data
| ID | 4910683 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan Faber Mcalister |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan Faber |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcalister |
| SIGNATURE | MCALISTER J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Drake University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Communication
The presence of toxic masculinity, which often appears as random violence such as road rage or high school shootings, is partly attributed to patriarchal values of hegemonic masculinity embedded in society. This chapter traces the thread of toxic masculinity back to one possible provenance of its hegemony in popular culture: the mythopoetic figure of Sherlock Holmes. Examining gendered depictions that link 19th-century literature to post-millenni…
New Materialities and Precarious Mobilities: Reinventing Studies of Space and Place
Communication scholarship on gender, sexuality, and space has expanded in recent years, bringing attention to new places, theories, and methods of analysis. Much of this work engages interdisciplin
Making Feminist, Queer, Latinx, and #BlackVotesMatter
The 2016 U.S. presidential campaign season has taken voters on quite a ride. From primary night scandals to incendiary Get Out the Vote pitches, this electoral cycle has been anything but average
Ten Propositions for Communication Scholars Studying Space and Place
Here. You are here ↙, where you find yourselves in a word, line, paragraph, page. Here in this place on printed paper or glowing screen or narrated audio, in this instant, you insert yourself into
The Visual Politics of Un/Veiling the Female Body in Political Protest
The Ukrainian group FEMEN, who formed in 2008 and whose “sextremist” events drew international media attention (“‘Sextremist'”), opens up a key set of issues for communication scholars interested i
Policing Sexual and Reproductive Agency in U.S. Public Culture
Recent issues of Women's Studies in Communication have featured a number of key articles presenting research into U.S. discourse foregrounding women's health and self-care. Lora Arduser and Amy Koe
Lexicon of the Mouth: Poetics and Politics of Voice and the Oral Imaginary / Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings / Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents
Joan Faber McAlisterDrake University© 2015, Joan Faber McAlister
The Past and Future of Feminist Communication Scholarship in WSIC
When I first considered stepping into the role of editor at Women's Studies in Communication in 2013, I found myself critically reflecting on the title of the journal. As a scholar who engages topi
Collecting the Gaze: Memory, Agency, and Kinship in the Women's Jail Museum, Johannesburg
This article draws on Walter Benjamin's insights about collecting to consider how the curatorial approach in the Women's Jail museum figures former inmates as collectors who haunt a scene of memory that productively mediates the gaze. In compelling viewers to see how particular women recollect incarceration, this place of diverse and distinct memories invites a new mode of connection with visitors—kinship—that avoids problems associated with both…
Domesticating Citizenship: The Kairotopics of America's Post-9/11 Home Makeover
This essay analyzes how Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is making over democratic citizenship in post-9/11 America. Seeking to counter a temporal bias that displaces attention to the spatial in communication scholarship, I conduct a kairotopic, or temporal-spatial, analysis of this program to illustrate how it mediates citizenship through a particular material space-time: the contemporary American home. Overall, I argue that this show operates to …
Trash in the White House: Michelle Obama, Post-Racism, and the Pre-Class Politics of Domestic Style
That's what he's married to ... this is what we've got. You know what we've got? We've got trash in the White House. —Tammy Bruce, The Laura Ingraham Show. After warning listeners that “trash” had mo
Lives of the Mind/Body: Alarming Notes on the Tenure and Biological Clocks
When I entered graduate school at the University of Iowa in 1996, I had a partner, but no children. When I applied for my first tenure track job at Drake University in 2004, we had three children under the age of four. Looking back, I now think that my experiences moving through graduate school, completing the dissertation while navigating the job market, and progressing toward tenure illustrate how the culture of academia encourages us to live t…
Collecting the Gaze: Memory, Agency, and Kinship in the Women's Jail Museum, Johannesburg
This article draws on Walter Benjamin's insights about collecting to consider how the curatorial approach in the Women's Jail museum figures former inmates as collectors who haunt a scene of memory that productively mediates the gaze. In compelling viewers to see how particular women recollect incarceration, this place of diverse and distinct memories invites a new mode of connection with visitors—kinship—that avoids problems associated with both…
Domesticating Citizenship: The Kairotopics of America's Post-9/11 Home Makeover
This essay analyzes how Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is making over democratic citizenship in post-9/11 America. Seeking to counter a temporal bias that displaces attention to the spatial in communication scholarship, I conduct a kairotopic, or temporal-spatial, analysis of this program to illustrate how it mediates citizenship through a particular material space-time: the contemporary American home. Overall, I argue that this show operates to …
Trash in the White House: Michelle Obama, Post-Racism, and the Pre-Class Politics of Domestic Style
That's what he's married to ... this is what we've got. You know what we've got? We've got trash in the White House. —Tammy Bruce, The Laura Ingraham Show. After warning listeners that “trash” had mo
The Visual Politics of Un/Veiling the Female Body in Political Protest
The Ukrainian group FEMEN, who formed in 2008 and whose “sextremist” events drew international media attention (“‘Sextremist'”), opens up a key set of issues for communication scholars interested i
New Materialities and Precarious Mobilities: Reinventing Studies of Space and Place
Communication scholarship on gender, sexuality, and space has expanded in recent years, bringing attention to new places, theories, and methods of analysis. Much of this work engages interdisciplin
Making Feminist, Queer, Latinx, and #BlackVotesMatter
The 2016 U.S. presidential campaign season has taken voters on quite a ride. From primary night scandals to incendiary Get Out the Vote pitches, this electoral cycle has been anything but average
Ten Propositions for Communication Scholars Studying Space and Place
Here. You are here ↙, where you find yourselves in a word, line, paragraph, page. Here in this place on printed paper or glowing screen or narrated audio, in this instant, you insert yourself into
Lives of the Mind/Body: Alarming Notes on the Tenure and Biological Clocks
When I entered graduate school at the University of Iowa in 1996, I had a partner, but no children. When I applied for my first tenure track job at Drake University in 2004, we had three children under the age of four. Looking back, I now think that my experiences moving through graduate school, completing the dissertation while navigating the job market, and progressing toward tenure illustrate how the culture of academia encourages us to live t…
Policing Sexual and Reproductive Agency in U.S. Public Culture
Recent issues of Women's Studies in Communication have featured a number of key articles presenting research into U.S. discourse foregrounding women's health and self-care. Lora Arduser and Amy Koe
Lives of the Mind/Body: Alarming Notes on the Tenure and Biological Clocks
When I entered graduate school at the University of Iowa in 1996, I had a partner, but no children. When I applied for my first tenure track job at Drake University in 2004, we had three children under the age of four. Looking back, I now think that my experiences moving through graduate school, completing the dissertation while navigating the job market, and progressing toward tenure illustrate how the culture of academia encourages us to live t…
Trash in the White House: Michelle Obama, Post-Racism, and the Pre-Class Politics of Domestic Style
That's what he's married to ... this is what we've got. You know what we've got? We've got trash in the White House. —Tammy Bruce, The Laura Ingraham Show. After warning listeners that “trash” had mo
Domesticating Citizenship: The Kairotopics of America's Post-9/11 Home Makeover
This essay analyzes how Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is making over democratic citizenship in post-9/11 America. Seeking to counter a temporal bias that displaces attention to the spatial in communication scholarship, I conduct a kairotopic, or temporal-spatial, analysis of this program to illustrate how it mediates citizenship through a particular material space-time: the contemporary American home. Overall, I argue that this show operates to …
Collecting the Gaze: Memory, Agency, and Kinship in the Women's Jail Museum, Johannesburg
This article draws on Walter Benjamin's insights about collecting to consider how the curatorial approach in the Women's Jail museum figures former inmates as collectors who haunt a scene of memory that productively mediates the gaze. In compelling viewers to see how particular women recollect incarceration, this place of diverse and distinct memories invites a new mode of connection with visitors—kinship—that avoids problems associated with both…
The Past and Future of Feminist Communication Scholarship in WSIC
When I first considered stepping into the role of editor at Women's Studies in Communication in 2013, I found myself critically reflecting on the title of the journal. As a scholar who engages topi
The Visual Politics of Un/Veiling the Female Body in Political Protest
The Ukrainian group FEMEN, who formed in 2008 and whose “sextremist” events drew international media attention (“‘Sextremist'”), opens up a key set of issues for communication scholars interested i
Policing Sexual and Reproductive Agency in U.S. Public Culture
Recent issues of Women's Studies in Communication have featured a number of key articles presenting research into U.S. discourse foregrounding women's health and self-care. Lora Arduser and Amy Koe
Lexicon of the Mouth: Poetics and Politics of Voice and the Oral Imaginary / Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings / Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents
Joan Faber McAlisterDrake University© 2015, Joan Faber McAlister
Making Feminist, Queer, Latinx, and #BlackVotesMatter
The 2016 U.S. presidential campaign season has taken voters on quite a ride. From primary night scandals to incendiary Get Out the Vote pitches, this electoral cycle has been anything but average
Ten Propositions for Communication Scholars Studying Space and Place
Here. You are here ↙, where you find yourselves in a word, line, paragraph, page. Here in this place on printed paper or glowing screen or narrated audio, in this instant, you insert yourself into
New Materialities and Precarious Mobilities: Reinventing Studies of Space and Place
Communication scholarship on gender, sexuality, and space has expanded in recent years, bringing attention to new places, theories, and methods of analysis. Much of this work engages interdisciplin
The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Communication
The presence of toxic masculinity, which often appears as random violence such as road rage or high school shootings, is partly attributed to patriarchal values of hegemonic masculinity embedded in society. This chapter traces the thread of toxic masculinity back to one possible provenance of its hegemony in popular culture: the mythopoetic figure of Sherlock Holmes. Examining gendered depictions that link 19th-century literature to post-millenni…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Media Studies and Communication (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 works) · Politics (5 works)