Description:
In Threshold, Heather Suzanne Woods examines moments of transition--conceptual, cultural, and rhetorical--where meanings are unsettled and new possibilities emerge. Woods explores how thresholds function as sites of tension and transformation, shaping interpretation, identity, and power across texts, media, and lived experience. Threshold invites readers to consider what happens when boundaries are approached, crossed, or strategically maintained. This thought-provoking work will resonate with scholars and students across communication, cultural studies, and the humanities.
Review Quotes: "Threshold: How Smart Homes Change Us Inside and Out is exceptionally timely and likely to be a reference point for at least a decade. The social and cultural impacts of COVID-19 on remote work, domestic life, and suburban flight will be the focus of intense interest. Threshold is unique in the way it weaves shared themes around the 'smart home' as a place that is shaping society in both private and public ways."
--Faber McAlister, former editor of Women's Studies in Communication