A review by stranger_sights
Gendered Lives: Communication, Gender, and Culture by Julia T. Wood

4.0

I really feel like there was a lot of great information here about how gendered socialization affects communication, and because of it, men and women typically have styles of verbal and non-verbal communication that seems designed to put them at odds. To me, it reads like communication practices are informed by our patriarchal society, and by resigning ourselves to the tiny communication-practices boxes that we have been placed in since birth, we are only serving to reinforce the patriarchy. Which, duh.
Aside from that, which was my personal main takeaway, there's also good info on gender pronouns, differences between communication in hetero, gay, and lesbian relationships, and even a bit on how gendered communication is constantly queered by people of all orientations and presentations, because just like in any other circumstance, the binary is silly - in reality few things are so cut and dried as being one thing or the other.
4 out of 5.
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