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Western Journal of Communication
Volume 71(2), 2007

 
CONTENTS
 
Goltz, Dustin Bradley Laughing at absence: Instinct magazine and the hyper-masculine gay future? 93-113
 
  Instinct is a nationally distributed gay male magazine that relies on the strategies of humor and irony, encouraging their readers to not take life too seriously 
 
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homosexuality
gender
print journalism
humor
metaphor
aging
social structure
demographics
 
 
Duggan, Ashley Sex differences in communicative attempts to curtail depression: An inconsistent nurturing as control perspective. 114-135
 
  This study applies Inconsistent Nurturing as Control Theory (Le Poire, 1994) to romantic relationships with depressed individuals and examines sex differences in strategies non-depressed partners use as attempts to curtail depressive behavior 
 
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marriage and intimacy
gender
health
mental health
interpersonal
 
 
Bisel, Ryan S., Ford, Debra J., and Keyton, Joann Unobtrusive control in a leadership organization: Integrating control and resistance. 136-158
 
  This study examined decision making by members of a volunteer organization as a duality of unobtrusive control and resistance 
 
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organizational
persuasion
 
 
Gibson, Katie L. Judicial rhetoric and women's "place": The United States Supreme Court's Darwinian defense of separate spheres. 159-175
 
  This article examines the rhetoric of the Court's majority opinion in the 1908 case of Muller v Oregon 
 
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gender
rhetoric
law
democracy