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Stigma Reading List

Goffman, E. (1963). *Stigma: Notes on the management of spoiled identity*. Simon & Schuster.

Tyler, I. (2020). *Stigma: The machinery of inequality.* Zed Books.

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.

Falk, G. (2001). *Stigma: How we treat outsiders*. Prometheus Books.

Heatherton, T. F., Kleck, R. E., Hebl, M. R., & Hull, J. G. (2000). *The social psychology of stigma.* Taylor & Francis Group.

Foundational

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

Model of Stigma 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.
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
Communicating Stigma About Invisible Illness: U.S. Military Veterans’ Descriptions of Stigma Communi
Anderson, J., & Bresnahan, M. (2013). Communicating stigma about body size. Health Communication, 28(6), 605–615. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2012.706792
Communicating Stigma About Invisible Illness: U.S. Military Veterans’ Descriptions of Stigma Communi
Schwartz, J., & Grimm, J. (2019). Stigma communication surrounding PrEP: The experiences of a sample of men who have sex with men. Health Communication, 34(1), 84–90. https://doi.org/10. 1080/10410236.2017.1384430

Stigma Management Communication

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
Noltensmeyer, C. J., & Meisenbach, R. J. (2016). Emerging patterns of stigma management communication strategies among burn survivors and relational partners. American Behavioral Scientist, 60(11), 1378–1397. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764216657384
Roscoe, R. A. (2021). The battle against mental health stigma: Examining how veterans with PTSD communicatively manage stigma. Health Communication, 36(11), 1378–1387. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2020.1754587
Romo, L. K., & Obiol, M. E. (2021). How people in recovery manage the stigma of being an alcoholic. Health Communication, 38(5), 947-957. https:/doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.1983339
O’Shay, S., Pasman, E., Hicks, D. L., Brown, S., Aguis, E. & Resko, S. M. (2023). Affected family members’ communicative management of opioid misuse stigma: Applying and rethinking the stigma management communication typology. Journal of Family Communication, 23(2), 89-106. https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2023.2186882

Courtesy Stigma

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
Tikkanen, S. A., Peterson, B. L., & Parsloe, S. M. (2019). Courtesy stigma and social support: An exploration of fathers’ buffering strategies and blocking rationalizations. Health Communication, 34(13), 1543–1554. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2018.1504658
Roscoe, R. A. (2024). The elephant in my head: A layered account on managing courtesy stigma. Journal of Autoethnography, 5(1), 56-74. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2024.5.1.56
O’Shay-Wallace, S. (2020). “We weren’t raised that way”: Using stigma management communication theory to understand how families manage the stigma of substance abuse. Health Communication, 35(4), 465–474. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2019.1567443
Kulik, C. T., Bainbridge, H. T. J., & Cregan, C. (2008). Known by the company we keep: Stigma-by-association effects in the workplace. Academy of Management Review, 33(1), 216–230. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2008.27752765
Phillips, R., Benoit, C., Hallgrimsdottir, H., & Vallance, K. (2012). Courtesy stigma: A hidden health concern among front-line service providers to sex workers: Courtesy stigma in front-line service providers. Sociology of Health & Illness, 34(5), 681–696. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2011.01410.x
MacRae, H. (1999). Managing courtesy stigma: The case of Alzheimer’s disease. Sociology of Health & Illness, 21(1), 54–70. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.t01-1-00142

Power & Structural Stigma

Link, B. G., & Phelan, J. (2014). Stigma power. Social Science & Medicine, 103, 24–32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.07.035
- Meisenbach, R. J., & Hutchins, D. (2020). Stigma communication and power: Managing inclusion and exclusion in the workplace. In M. L. Doerfel & J. L. Gibbs
Hatzenbuehler, M. L. (2016). Structural stigma: Research evidence and implications for psychological science. American Psychologist, 71(8), 742-751. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000068
Hatzenbuehler, M. L., Phelan, J. C., & Link, B. G. (2014). Stigma as a fundamental cause of population health inequalities. American Journal of Public Health, 103(5), 813–821. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2012.301069

Intersectional Stigma

Levey, T. G., & Pinsky, D. (2015). A constellation of stigmas: Intersectional stigma management and professional dominatrix. Deviant Behavior, 36(5), 347-367. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2014.935658

Organizational & Dirty Work Stigma

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
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
- Hudson, B. A., & Okhuysen, G. A. (2009). Not with a ten-foot pole: Core stigma, stigma transfer, and improbable persistence of men’s bathhouses. Organization Science, 20(1), 134–153. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1080.0368
- Wolfe, A. W., & Blithe, S. J., (2015). Managing image in a core-stigmatized organization: Concealment and revelation in Nevada’s legal brothels, Management Communication Quarterly, 29(4), 539-563. https://doi.org/10.1177/0893318915596204
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

Mental Illness & Stigma

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

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