New Podcast!

Check out my podcast interview for RH Reality Check, the UN Foundation's online reproductive rights magazine, with Amanda Marcotte, about feminism and motherhood.  Click here and go about 8 minutes into the cast to reach this interview.
 

Talks and Workshops

Motherhood and Women's Empowerment
Drawing from her recent book, Motherhood and Feminism, which documents women's maternal activism in the US since the Industrial Revolution, as well as from her own published narrative accounts, Kinser discusses the conflicted relationship between motherhood and the fight for women's equality and power.

Workplace Communication Strategies
for Women

An examination of how gendered communication can be used more strategically at work.  Kinser explains how women and men tend to communicate in gendered ways and how this impacts workplace relationships and tasks.  She discusses concrete communication strategies women in particular can use to confront workplace dilemmas.

The More things Change...
Kinser explores the ways that mother’s lives have changed over time.  After a brief historical overview of motherhood around the world, Kinser focuses in on the last 200+ years in the U.S. to discuss how family life and women’s roles have changed shape over time and some of the ways that images of motherhood have remained static.


No More Mommy Wars
A critique of the media-driven idea that at-work and at-home mothers are in great conflict. Kinser redirects attention to the true conflict confronting families:  Mothers’ efforts to care for their children in self-determined ways on one side, and family un-friendly social policy coupled with unrealistic expectations for good mothering on the other.

Upcoming Webinars

Speaking for Writers
An online public speaking workshop that helps writers promote their work through public speaking.  Whether you are doing readings or talks, are comfortable or terrified speaking to groups, write fiction or nonfiction, this webinar will help you successfully promote your work and distribute your ideas.

Workplace Communication Strategies for Women

An online workshop that teaches how gender shapes your communication style, how that style can be both powerful and a hindrance, and how to use your style more strategically
 
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To arrange to have Amber Kinser speak to your organization, school, or business, email kinsera@etsu.edu  or click on the photo


Organizational Talks: Gender & Communication

Motherhood and Women's Empowerment
Alliance for Continued Learning, ETSU

Women and Men, Girls and Boys Communicating
 
American Association of University Women

Gender, Communication, and Workplace Strategy
 
Phi Kappa Phi

Gendered Communication Styles 
Tennessee Association of College Registrars and Admissions Officers 

Gender Stereotypes and Children 
Watauga Counseling Association 

Releasing the Gender Chokehold
 
American Society for Training & Development
Society for Human Resource Management
 


Presenting Your Patients and Your Ideas: Communication Without Self Compromise
Organization for Women in Medicine