Gender in a Transitional Era addresses a range of issues relevant in current gender and sexuality studies scholarship which span many disciplines. The contributors prioritize the critical thinking that continues to support the notion that we, as a society, still have a ways to go toward full gender equality in all spheres of life. This collection positions marginal voices at the center of complex gender issues in today’s society. Broad thematic topic areas include parental identities, advi...

A transformational approach to conflict argues that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns and social and discursive structures. Central to this book is the idea that the origins of transformation can be momentary, situational, and small-scale or large-scale and systemic. The momentary involves shifts and meaningful changes in communication and related patterns that are created in communication between people. Momentary transformative changes can radiate ou...

Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers, edited by Alena Amato Ruggerio, explores how television, film, the internet, and other media variously perpetuate gender stereotypes. The contributors to this volume bring a variety of feminist rhetorical and media criticism approaches from across the communication discipline to their analyses of how television, film, news coverage, and the Internet shape our expectations of the performance of women’s identities. This collection includes stud...

Sitting prominently at the hearth of our homes, television serves as a voice of our modern time. Given our media-saturated society and television’s prominent voice and place in the home, it is likely we learn about our society and selves through these stories. These narratives are not simply entertainment, but powerful socializing agents that shape and reflect the world and our role in it. Television and the Self: Knowledge, Identity, and Media Representation brings together a diverse grou...

Harlequin Heartwarming brings you a collection of four new wholesome reads, available now!This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes:HOME TO STAYSan Diego K-9 Unitby Kate JamesSawyer Evans is desperate to find his son during a camping trip gone badly wrong, so he turns to K-9 officer Shannon Clemens. She’s promised to save the child, and won’t let unexpected feelings for Sawyer get in her way.AFRAID TO LOSE HE...

Harlequin® Heartwarming celebrates wholesome, heartfelt relationships that focus on home, family, community and love. Experience all that and more with four new novels in one collection!This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes:A BOY’S AMISH CHRISTMASThe Butternut Amish B&Bby Patricia JohnsBrett Rockwell wants a quiet Christmas with his nephew, so getting snowed in at an Amish B&B with journalist Emaline Piper isn’t on his ...

Honoring a family vow…He never expected loveWhen veterinarian Hank Hopson returns to Three Springs, Texas, with his five-year-old son, he’s determined to honor his wife’s last wish to heal family wounds. Taking a job at the local animal hospital, he’s paired with Gwen Bayer, the spitfire cowgirl working as his vet tech. She plans to get back on the rodeo circuit once her horse’s injury heals, and he’s headed for the city. But as their frien...

Cuddle up with us this Valentine's Day!Wyngraf's beloved romance edition is back and bigger than ever! Fill your heart with three new cozy fantasy romances—plus a tea recipe!* "Mail-Order Husband" by J. Alexander Cohen: Silas is a dragon rancher who dreams of romance. But good men are hard to find west of the Rift, and Silas's personal ads in a newspaper back east seem to achieve nothing but annoying the editor... A funny, poetic M/M romance.* "Frozen Hearts" by Na...

Harlequin® Heartwarming celebrates wholesome, heartfelt relationships imbued with the traditional values so important to you: home, family, community and love. Experience all that and more with four new novels in one collection!This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes:A MAN OF HONORTwins Plus Oneby Cynthia ThomasonNews producer Brooke Montgomery accepts the challenge to turn ex-jock Jeremy Crockett into a polished anchor...

This big-city cowboyJust swept her off her boots!Saving his family’s Kentucky racing stables is priority number one for cowboy Asher Blackwell. Love is not on his agenda. But when pretty chef Kelley Munroe pulls him into a clumsy two-step, he’s charmed. And making a deal with her to cater for the stables adds a little sunlight to his days. As a shared love of horses draws them together, and they’re roped into planning the town’s Fourth of J...

Harlequin® Heartwarming celebrates wholesome, heartfelt relationships that focus on home, family, community and love. Experience all that and more with four new novels in one collection!This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes:A SURPRISE SECOND CHANCEHawaiian ReunionsBy USA TODAY bestselling author Anna J. StewartAn unexpected reunion with her first love gives Daphne Mercer hope for a second chance, but it’s no co...

Harlequin® Heartwarming celebrates wholesome, heartfelt relationships that focus on home, family, community and love. Experience all that and more with four new novels in one collection!This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes:A TEXAN’S CHRISTMAS BABYTexas Rebelsby Linda WarrenChase Rebel and Jody Carson wed secretly after high school—then life and bitter hurts forced them apart. Now they’re back in Horseshoe, Texas, still...