Rethinking Appropriateness: A look at Hegemonic Ideals as Related to Perceived Communication Competence In Women

• Main Author: Meade, Kristi L.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: PDXScholar 1997
• Subjects: Communicative competence; Communicative competence Women > Communication; Communication Sciences and Disorders; Gender; Race; Sexuality; and Ethnicity in Communication; Speech and Hearing Science; Duran; Meade; Spitzberg
• Online Access: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5377; https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6449&context=open_access_etds

The author argues that the hegemonically-constructed criteria of "appropriateness," as related to communication competence, is not palatable or functional for female communicators much of the time for it serves a social milieu which marginalizes women. Spitzberg and Duran (1993) state, &qu...