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Gender and Public Relations: critical perspectives on voice, image and identity is a new collection of research edited by Christine Daymon and Kristin Demetrious.  Wth chapters by international public relations and feminist scholars, the book is positioned within the critical public relations stream.The collection highlights how gender is accomplished and transformed and thus how power is exercised and inequality (re)produced or challenged in public relations.  The aim is to expand thinking about power relations and privilege for both women and men and how these are affected by the interplay of social, cultural and institutional practices.A key feature of the book is its examination not only of the manipulatory potential of public relations but also its emancipatory, subversive and transformatory roles in constructing meaning.  It covers previously unexplored areas in relation to gender and public relations including:The production of social meaning and power relationsAdvocacy and activist campaigns for social and political changeThe negotiation of identity, diversity and cultural practiceCelebrity, bodies, fashion and harassment in the workplaceNotions of managing reputation and communicating policy. Contents of the book are as follows:  Lana Rakow: Foreword Christine Daymon and Kristin Demetrious.  Gender and public relations: making meaning, challenging assumptions. Kristin Demetrious.  Surface effects: public relations and the politics of gender. Anne Surma and Christine Daymon.  Caring about public relations and the gendered cultural intermediary role. Donnalyn Pompper. Interrogating inequalities perpetuated in a feminized field: using Critical Race Theory and the intersectionality lens to render visible that which should not be disaggregated. Liz Yeomans. Gendered performance and identity work in PR consulting relationships: a UK perspective.  C. Kay Weaver. Mothers, bodies, and breasts: organizing strategies and tactics in women's activism Jane Arthurs. Celebrity, gender and reputation management at the BBC. Ian Somerville and Sahla Aroussi. Campaigning for 'women, peace and security': transnational advocacy networks at the United Nations Security Council. Marianne D. Sison. Gender, culture and power: competing discourses on the Philippine Reporductive Health Bill. Maree Keating. 'I want to voice out my opinion': bringing migrant women into union work. Jennifer Vardeman-Winter, Hua Jiang and Natalie Tindall. 'Mamography at age 40 to 49 saves lives; justnot enough of them': gendered political intersections in communicating breast cancer screening policy to publics. Kate Fitch and Amanda Third.  Ex-journos and promo girls: feminization and professionalization in the Australian public relations industry.  For more about the thinking behind the book, click on the below for an interview with the editorshttp://www.taylorandfrancis.com/articles/interview_with_the_editors_of_gender_and_public_relations/&#160;&#160;