%0 Journal Article %1 dorsten__2012 %A Dorsten, Aimee-Marie %D 2012 %J Communication Theory %K feminist-scholarship huettig hughes intellectual internalist powdermaker united-states %N 1 %P 25--47 %R 10.1111/j.1468-2885.2011.01398.x %T '' Thinking Dirty'': Digging Up Three Founding '' Matriarchs'' of Communication Studies %V 22 %X The field of communication scarcely examines issues of gender in documenting its own historiography. Consequently, Hortense Powdermaker, Mae Huettig, and Helen MacGill Hughes do not seem seminal to the development of communication scholarship during its nascent era of the 1930s–1960s, despite these women working and publishing within the same academic circles as Harold Lasswell, Dallas Smythe, and Paul Lazarsfeld. Social, economic, and political factors diminished their contributions to what we now call media effects theory, political economy of communication, and media studies. This article uses feminist standpoint epistemology theory to examine some of these early moments in the history of communication scholarship, to theorize about the consequences of its development, and to suggest the value of future recovery work.

@article{dorsten__2012, abstract = {The field of communication scarcely examines issues of gender in documenting its own historiography. Consequently, Hortense Powdermaker, Mae Huettig, and Helen MacGill Hughes do not seem seminal to the development of communication scholarship during its nascent era of the 1930s\textendash{}1960s, despite these women working and publishing within the same academic circles as Harold Lasswell, Dallas Smythe, and Paul Lazarsfeld. Social, economic, and political factors diminished their contributions to what we now call media effects theory, political economy of communication, and media studies. This article uses feminist standpoint epistemology theory to examine some of these early moments in the history of communication scholarship, to theorize about the consequences of its development, and to suggest the value of future recovery work.}, added-at = {2019-08-29T01:56:31.000+0200}, author = {Dorsten, Aimee-Marie}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2ead6fad86d06ff186d6f5bd637b8cb9b/jpooley}, doi = {10.1111/j.1468-2885.2011.01398.x}, interhash = {41aa994acfa94e14dc90b24ae0f71d37}, intrahash = {ead6fad86d06ff186d6f5bd637b8cb9b}, journal = {Communication Theory}, keywords = {feminist-scholarship huettig hughes intellectual internalist powdermaker united-states}, number = 1, pages = {25--47}, timestamp = {2019-08-29T01:56:31.000+0200}, title = {'' {{Thinking Dirty}}'': {{Digging Up Three Founding}} '' {{Matriarchs}}'' of {{Communication Studies}}}, volume = 22, year = 2012 }