Julia Wood

Julia T. Wood is an honorary scholar, professor, author and editor. She has written or edited more than 20 books and over 70 articles focused mainly on communication and gender.^[1]

History/Background

Julia Wood was born in Bethesda, Maryland and grew up in North Carolina where she obtained her B.A. at North Carolina State University in 1972.^[2] From there she got her M.A. at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 1973 and her Ph.D. at Pennsylvania State University in 1975.

Scholary Work

Wood became interested in communication ethics because of the power differences that were occurring in the 1980s.^[3] From 1973-1975 Julia Wood was an instructor at The Pennsylvania State University. After obtaining her PhD, Wood started as an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Wood began her research with the topic interpersonal communication but now does studies involving feminism. She is currently studying intimate partner violence and gendered dynamics in culture.^[2] In these recent studies both men and women in abusive relationships have been interviewed to see the causes behind these relationships.^[4][5]

Some of the books Wood has written include Communication in Our Lives, Gendered Lives, and But I Thought You Meant...: Misunderstandings in Human Communication.^[2]

Other Contributions

Wood has earned over 30 honors and awards for her work, including the CASE Award for Professor of the year in North Carolina in 1998, Gender Scholar of the Year in 2007, and George H. Johnson Prize for Lifetime Achievement in 2010.^[2]

Further reading

Dennis, A. C., & Wood, J. T. (2012). “We're not going to have this conversation, but you get it ”: Black mother–daughter communication about sexual relations. Women's Studies In Communication, 35(2), 204-223.

Wood, J. T., & Conrad, C. (1983). Paradox in the experiences of professional women. Western Journal of Speech Communication, 47(4), 305-322.

Wood, J. T. (1992). Telling our stories: narratives as a basis for theorizing sexual harassment. Journal Of Applied Communication Research, 20(4), 349.

Wood, J. T. (1994). Gendered media: The influence of media on views of gender. Gendered lives: Communication, gender and culture, 231-244.

Wood, J. T. (1995). Feminist scholarship and the study of relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 12(1), 103-120.

Wood, J. T. (1999). " That wasn't the real him": Women's dissociation of violence from the men who enact it. Communication Quarterly, 47(3), Q1.

Wood, J. T. (2001). The normalization of violence in heterosexual romantic relationships: Women's narratives of love and violence. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 18(2), 239-261.

Wood, J. T. (2004). Monsters and victims: Male felons’ accounts of intimate partner violence. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 21(5), 555-576.

Wood, J. T. (2005). Feminist standpoint theory and muted group theory: Commonalities and divergences. Women & Language, 28(2), 61-64.

Wood, J. T. (2006). Gender, power, and violence in heterosexual relationships. D. Canary, & K. Dindia (Eds.). na.

Wood, J. T. (2010). The can-do discourse and young women's anticipations of future. Women & Language, 33(1), 103-107.

Wood, J. (2012). Gendered lives. Nelson Education.

References

A conversation about communication ethics with Julia T. Wood. (2007). Exploring Communication Ethics, 117-129.

Dow, B. J., & Wood, J. T. (2014). Repeating history and learning from it: what can slutwalks teach us about feminism?. Women's Studies In Communication, 37(1), 22-43.

Eadie, B. (1998). Julia Wood wins CASE award for scholarly teaching. Spectra, 34(12), 7.

"Julia T. Wood - UNC Communication Studies". comm.unc.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-21.

"Wood, Julia | SAGE Publications Inc ". us.sagepub.com. Retrieved 2017-02-21.

See also

• Intimate partner violence

References

External links

• CV