Wednesday November 16, 2011 - National Communication ...

Chair: Michelle R. LaVigne, Univ of San Francisco
"I Just Want to Do Something: An Understanding of Bodily Engagement in Social Justice Issues" Jessica S. Tomell-
Presto, DePaul University
"The Collective 'Unconscious State' of Our Body Power" Nicole L. Defenbaugh, Bloomsburg University; Julie Petry,
Bloomsburg University
"This Book Called My Body" Daisy Levy, Michigan State University
"’The Human Element’: Rhetoric and Performance in Prison" Cory Holding, Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
508012 11:00 AM to 12:15 PM New Orleans Marriott La Galerie 2 - Second Floor
Color Me Empowered: The Quest for a Transnational Feminist Voice in Social and Conventional Media
Sponsor: Feminist and Women Studies Division
Chair: Yahui Zhang, Wayland Baptist Univ
"(Re)Gaining Voices: Resilience and Micro-emancipation in Two Stories of Settling in the U.S. on Dependent
Visas" Debalina Dutta, Purdue University; Ranjani Rao, Purdue University; Patrice M. Buzzanell, Purdue University
"Dis-Empowering the Female: Perpetuating Hegemonic Discourse through Pakistani Cable Television" Saman Talib,
Beaconhouse National University
"Negotiating Resistance: Challenges of a Female Faculty Member of Color from an Islamic Arab Background" Ahlam
Muhtaseb, California State University, San Bernardino
"Non-Western diasporic women as acculturating subjects: a feminist revisit to positivist/behaviorist acculturation
theories in narratives of first-generation Chinese immigration women in the U.S." Lili Shi, CUNY / Kingsborough
Community College
"Online Voices, Offline Violence: Blogs as Safe Spaces for Domestically Abused South Asian Immigrant
Women" Ishani Mukherjee, University of Illinois, Chicago
508013 11:00 AM to 12:15 PM New Orleans Marriott La Galerie 3 - Second Floor
Sex, Saints and Scandal: Three Dimensional Voice of the Post Modern Woman
Sponsor: Feminist and Women Studies Division
Chair: Alena Amato Ruggerio, Southern Oregon University
"Beyond the Sexy Streets: A Feminist Perspective on Queering Interpersonal and Family Communication" Roberta
Chevrette, Arizona State University
"Dismissal of the Juarez Femicide: Media Framing Analysis" Jessica Choquette, Ball State University
"Framing Gang Rape in 'Rough Town:' Diverse Voices in Gender Violence News Online" Nancy Worthington,
Quinnipiac University
"Religion as Constraint and Empowerment: Women on Communicating Feminism, Gender Roles, and
Intersectionalities" Natalie Sadler, San Diego State University; Kaitlin Noelle Brooks, San Diego State Univ
"The Prostitute's Body and Soul: Biopower and Morality within British Discourse, 1812-1840" Greta Wendelin,
University of Kansas
"The Rhetorical Goddess: A Feminist Perspective On Women in Magic" Laura C. Bruns, Bradley University
"What is Sexy? How American College Students Define and Consume Sexiness in the Media" Meng Zhang,
University of Florida; Qinwei Xie, University of Florida
508014 11:00 AM to 12:15 PM New Orleans Marriott La Galerie 4 - Second Floor
Voicing Black Experiences through Mediated Representations
Sponsor: African American Communication and Culture Division
Chair: Kami Anderson, Southern Polytechnic State Univ
Respondent: Rex L. Crawley, Robert Morris University