Reading Lists

Stigma

Foundational Works

Goffman, E. (1963). Stigma: Notes on the management of spoiled identity. Simon & Schuster.
Tyler, I. (2020). Stigma: The machinery of inequality. Zed Books.
Link, B. G., & Phelan, J. C. (2001). Conceptualizing stigma. Annual Review of Sociology, 27(1), 363–385. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.27.1.363
Jones, C. P. (1987). Stigma: Tattooing and branding in Graeco-Roman antiquity. Journal of Roman Studies, 77, 139–155. https://doi.org/10.2307/300578
Jones, N., & Corrigan, P. W. (2014). Understanding stigma. In P. W. Corrigan (Ed.), The Stigma of Disease and Disability: Understanding Causes and Overcoming Injustices. (pp. 9–34). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/14297-002
Major, B., & O’Brien, L. T. (2005). The social psychology of stigma. Annual Review of Psychology, 56, 393-421. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.56.091103.070137
Falk, G. (2001). Stigma: How we treat outsiders. Prometheus Books.
Link, B. G., & Phelan, J. (2014). Stigma power. Social Science & Medicine, 103, 24–32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.07.035

Stigma and Communication

Smith, R. A. (2007). Language of the lost: An explication of stigma communication. Communication Theory, 17(4), 462–485. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2007.00307.x
Zhu, X., & Smith, R. A. (2021). Stigma, communication, and health. In T. L. Thompson & N. G. Harrington (3rd ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication (pp. 77-90). Routledge.
Meisenbach, R. J. (2010). Stigma management communication: A theory and agenda for applied research on how individuals manage moments of stigmatized identity. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 38(3), 268–292. https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2010.490841
Meisenbach, R. J., & Roscoe, R. A. (2022). Stigma management. International Encyclopedia of Health Communication. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119678816.iehc0840
Meisenbach, R. J., & Hutchins, D. (2020). Stigma communication and power: Managing inclusion and exclusion in the workplace. In M. L. Doerfel & J. L. Gibbs

Miscellaneous

de Souza, R. (2019). Feeding the other: Whiteness, privilege, and neoliberal stigma in food pantries. MIT Press.
Brewis, A., & Wutich, A. (2019). Lazy, crazy, and disgusting: Stigma and the undoing of global health. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Blithe, S., Wolfe, A., & Mohr, B. (2019). Sex and stigma: Stories of everyday life in Nevada’s legal brothels. NYU Press.
Kotova, A. (2020). Beyond courtesy stigma: Towards a multi-faceted and cumulative model of stigmatization of families of people in prison. Forensic Science International: Mind and Law, 1, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsiml.2020.100021

Dirty Work

Hughes, E. C. (1958). Men and their work. Quid Pro.
Ashforth, B. E., & Kreiner, G. E. (1999). “How can you do it?”: Dirty work and the challenge of constructing a positive identity. Academy of Management Review, 24(3), 413–434. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.1999.2202129
Ashforth, B. E., Kreiner, G. E., Clark, M. A., & Fugate, M. (2007). Normalizing dirty work: Managerial tactics for countering occupational taint. The Academy of Management Journal, 50(1), 149-174. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20159845
Ashforth, B. E., & Kreiner, G. E. (2014). Dirty work and dirtier work: Differences in countering physical, social, and moral stigma. Management and Organization Review, 10(1), 81–108. https://doi.org/10.1111/more.12044
Rivera, K. D. (2015). Emotional taint: Making sense of emotional dirty work at the U.S. border patrol. Management Communication Quarterly, 29(2), 198–228. https://doi.org/10.1177/0893318914554090

Organizational Stigma

Hudson, B. A. (2008). Against all odds: A consideration of core-stigmatized organizations. Academy of Management Review, 33(1), 252–266. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2008.27752775
Devers, C. E., Dewett, T., Mishina, Y., & Belsito, C. A. (2009). A general theory of organizational stigma. Organization Science, 20(1), 154–171. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1080.0367

Reproductive Justice

Ross, L., & Solinger, R. (2017). Reproductive justice: An introduction. University of California Press.
Sellnow-Richmond, D. D., Novak, J. M., & Seeger, M. W. (2021). The communicative relationship between the socioeconomically disadvantaged stakeholders and the reproductive healthcare nonprofit organization. Health Communication, 36(13), 1634–1645. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2020.1785374

Abortion Stigma

Kumar, A., Hessini, L., & Mitchell, E. M. H. (2009). Conceptualising abortion stigma. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 11(6), 625–639. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691050902842741
Norris, A., Bessett, D., Steinberg, J. R., Kavanaugh, M. L., Zordo, S. D., & Becker, D. (2011). Abortion stigma: A reconceptualization of constituents, causes, and consequences. Women’s Health Issues, 21(3), S49–S54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.whi.2011.02.010
Kosenko, K., Winderman, E., & Pugh, A. (2019). The hijacked hashtag: The constitutive features of abortion stigma in the #ShoutYourAbortion Twitter campaign. International Journal of Communication, 13, 1–21. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/7849/2519

Menstrual Stigma

Bobel, C., Winkler, I. T., Fahs, B., Hasson, K. A, Kissling, E. A., & Roberts, T. (2020). The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies. Palgrave Macmillan.
Olson, M. M., Alhelou, N., Kavattur, P. S., Rountree, L., & Winkler, I. T. (2022). The persistent power of stigma: A critical review of policy initiatives to break the menstrual silence and advance menstrual literacy. Global Public Health, 2(7), 1- 23. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000070 
Jaafar, H., Ismail, S. Y., & Assseri, A. (2023). Period poverty: A neglected public health issue. Korean Journal of Family Medicine, 44(4), 183-188. https://doi.org/10.4082/kjfm.22.0206
Rubinsky, V., Gunning, J. N., & Cooke-Jackson, A. (2020). “I thought I was dying:” (Un)supportive communication surrounding menstruation experiences. Health Communication, 35(2), 242-252. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2018.1548337

Corrigan, P. W. (2004). How stigma interferes with mental health care. American Psychologist, 59(7), 614–625. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066x.59.7.614
Corrigan, P. W., & Miller, F. E. (2004). Shame, blame, and contamination: A review of the impact of mental illness stigma on family members. Journal of Mental Health, 13(6), 537–548. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638230400017004
Corrigan, P. W., Watson, A. C., & Miller, F. E. (2006). Blame, shame, and contamination: The impact of mental illness and drug dependence stigma on family members. Journal of Family Psychology, 20(2), 239-246. https://doi.org/10.1037/0893-3200.20.2.239

Defenbaugh, N. (2022). Invisible illnesses. The International Encyclopedia of Health Communication. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119678816.iehc0984
Roscoe, R. A. (2023). Stigma communication about invisible illness: Military and public stigma about veterans experiencing posttraumatic stress. Communication Studies, 75(5), 447-461. https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2023.2221702

Tracy, S. J. (2024). Qualitative research methods: Collecting evidence, crafting analysis, communicating impact. 3rd eds. Wiley-Blackwell
Kerber, A. (2019). Blurring the paradigmatic edges: Navigating the boundaries between critical-interpretive and interpretive approaches to health communication research. Frontiers in Communication, 4, 59. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2019.00059