Faculty - Publications by Helen Sterk

 

Books

Gender and Applied Communication. Sage Publishing, 2004. (With Patrice Buzzanell and Lynn Turner).

Who's Having This Baby?e. Michigan State University Press, 2002. (With Carla Hay, Alice Kehoe, Krista Ratcliffe, and Leona Vande Vuss).

Differences That Make a Difference. Westport, CN: Bergin and Garvey, 1994. (With Lynn Turner).

After Eden: Meeting the Challenge of Gender Reconciliation. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1993. (With Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen, Annelies Knoppers, Margaret L. Koch and Douglas Schuurman).

Constructing and Reconstructing Gender. New York: State University of New York Press, 1992. (With Linda A.M. Perry and Lynn H. Turner).

Book Chapters

"Anthony's Silence: An Examination of the Intersection of Gender and Race in 'Designing Women.'" in Outsiders Looking In: A Communication Perspective on the Hill/Thomas Hearings. Paul Siegel, ed. Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton Press, 1996. (With Lynn Turner).

Contemporary Birthing Practices: Technology Over Humanity? in Evaluating Women's Health Messages: A Resource Book. Roxanne Louiselle Parrott and Celeste Michelle Condit, eds. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., 1996: 124-134.

"Birthing: Women Owning Their Stories." in Communication and Sex-Role Socialization. Cynthia Berryman-Fink, Deborah Ballard-Reisch, and Lisa H. Newman, eds. New York: Garland Press, 1993: 433-461. (With Karen J. Sterk)

Refereed Publications

"Narrative Analysis of Sexual Etiquette in Teen Magazines." Journal of Communication. 43 (Autumn 1998): 59-78. (With Ana Garner and Shawn Adams).

"A Womanly Spiritual Space." Women and Language. XVI (Spring 1993): 27-32.

"The Rhetoric of Archibald MacLeish's 'J.B.': A Flawed Drama of Personal Orthodoxy." Journal of Communication and Religion. 13 (March 1990): 55-65.

"How Rhetoric Becomes Real: Religious Sources of Gender Identity." Journal of Communication and Religion. 12 (September 1989): 24-33.

"Descriptive Feedback: Students Responding to Students." Iowa Journal of Speech Communication. (Fall 1987): 1-11.

"In Praise of Beautiful Women." Western Journal of Speech Communication. 50 (Summer 1986): 215-226.

"The Metamorphosis of Marilyn Monroe." Central States Speech Journal. 36 (1985): 294-304.

"The Critical Imagination." Iowa Journal of Speech Communication. Spring 1984, 1-16.

Book Reviews

Review of Alison Stokes, Women Pastors. Christian Century. 3 April 1996: 378-379.

Review of Naomi Wolf, Fire With Fire: The New Female Power and How It Will Change the 21st Century. Christian Century. (13-20 July 1994): 694-695.

Review of Brian Wren, What Language Shall I Borrow? Reformed Journal. 40 (September 1990): 28-30.

Review of Endless Rapture: Rape and the Female Imagination; Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy and Popular Literature; and Loving With a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women. Quarterly Journal of Speech. 72 (August 1986): 346-349.

Other Publications

"Tuned In: Combating a Glamorous Distortion of Sexuality." The Banner (29 April 1996): 24.

"NYPD Family Values." Christian Century. (15-22 June 1994): 611-612.

"Tabloid Talk Shows: Viewer Discretion Advised." The Banner. (27 September 1993): 14-15.

"Creation Dismembered: Narrative Implications for Christian Life." Proceedings of the 1993 Conference on Christianity and Communication. June, 1993.

Proceedings of the 1993 Conference on Christianity and Communication. June, 1993. (With Willam Thorn)

"Coffee Break: What Makes It Work?" The Banner. (18 February 1991): 12.

"Headship: The Narrative of Gender Relations in the Christian Reformed Church." Proceedings of the 1990 Conference on Christianity and Communication. (August 1991).

"The Rhetoric of 'Headship'--and Some Alternatives." Partnership. (Summer 1990): 12-15.

"All Wrapped Up and No Place to Go?" The Banner. (6 November 1989):12-13.

"The Status of Women in the Christian Schools." The Christian Educator s Journal. Fall 1979.

Archive Development

The Birthing Project. This archive, housed at Marquette University, contains transcripts of 102 interviews with women describing their experiences of birthing. The interviews were gathered in New York, California, Florida, Michigan and Wisconsin. The archive represents a wide diversity of experiences, ethnicity of the mothers, socio-economic classes, and birthplaces.