Northern Illinois University
Department of Communication
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Associate Professor

Education

Ph.D., University of Iowa

Specialties

• Feminist theory and criticism
• Cultural studies
• Textual and historical methods
• Rhetorical theory and criticism
• Feminist and labor politics

Publications

Cady, K. A. (2025). Analyzing wage-earning women in 1970s news magazines. Feminist Media Studies, 1-16. DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2024.2441830

Cady, K. A. (2024). The death of Fordism and the family wage in labor documentaries: A feminist analysis. Journal of Communication Inquiry 48(1), 90-107. DOI: 10.1177/01968599221150651

Woodyard, K. and Cady, K. A. (2019). All the working woman's friends: Protective labor legislation and the early ERA controversy. Women and Language, 42, 23-42. DOI: 10.34036/WL.2019.003

Cady, K. A. and Oates, T. P. (2016). Family splatters: Rescuing heteronormativity from the zombie apocalypse. Women's Studies in Communication, 38, 308-325. DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2016.1194935

Ho, E. Y., Cady, K. A. and Robles, J. (2016). A case study of the neti pot's rise, Americanization, and rupture as integrative medicine in US media discourse. Health Communication, 31, 1181-1192. DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2015.1047145

Cady, K. A. (2013). Flexible labor: A feminist response to late twentieth century capitalism? Feminist Media Studies, 13, 395-414. DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2012.678876

Cady, K. A. (2012). “Ann and Myself”: Rhetoric, silence, and sexualities at Lowell. Southern Communication Journal, 71, 24-44. DOI: 10.1080/1041794x.2011.577266

Cady, K. A., Brookey, R. A. and Powers, R. M. (2011). Seeing Dixie: Exposing patriarchy in an Internet meme. Women and Language (Alternative Scholarship). 

Cady, K. A. (2009). Labor and women's liberation: Popular readings of The Feminine Mystique. Women's Studies in Communication, 32, 348-379. DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2009.10162394

Cady, K. A. (2006). From drill sergeants to maternal negotiators: Mass-mediated business strategies in the 1980s. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 23, 57-76. DOI: 10.1080/07393180600570824