Research Catalog

Title

Family in crisis? : crossing borders, crossing narratives / Eva-Sabine Zehelein, Andrea Carosso, Aida Rosende-Pérez (eds.).

Publication

• Bielefeld : Transcipt Verlag, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Zehelein, Eva-Sabine, 1974-
• Carosso, Andrea
• Rosende-Pérez, Aida

Description

213 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

Is the family in crisis? Or do crises crystallize in families' lived realities? Families as constitutive units of all social architectures are central to our democracies. In this book, scholars from cultural, gender, and media studies, lawyers, sociologists, and historians discuss how today's rainbow variety of families crosses borders and how cultural texts - sitcoms, films, novels, short stories, and political magazines from Europe (Germany, Italy, Spain) and the US - (de)construct, take part in, and mirror family discourses around topics such as fatherhoods, motherhoods, reproductive decisions, adoption, marriage, divorce, poverty, welfare, war, and the rhetoric of the nuclear family.

Series Statement

Culture & theory ; volume 221

Uniform Title

Culture & theory ; v. 221.

Subject

• Families
• Families in mass media
• Families in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Family in Crisis? -- The Long-Term Impact of Growing Up Poor - the Italian Case -- Family Change and Welfare Reform in the United States Since the 1970s -- Patrimonial Benefits Arising from Family Crises -- Multiparentality and New Structures of Family Relationship -- Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Lesbian Families -- "He's Not Family" -- Narrative Ethics in HBO's Big Little Lies -- (De)Constructing Gender and Family Roles in Helen Simpson's Short Stories -- Black Orphans, Adoption, and Labor in Antebellum American Literature -- Anne Frank, Franz Kafka and Charles Lindbergh "at the kitchen table in Newark" -- Family Crises on the Frontiers -- Cinematic Violence and Ideological Transgression -- Kinship at the Margins -- Donald the Family Planner -- Of Turkish Women and Other Foreigners -- Closing Remarks - By a Family Lawyer -- About the contributors

Call Number

JFE 21-3564

ISBN

• 9783837650617
• 3837650618

OCLC

1156331346

Title

Family in crisis? : crossing borders, crossing narratives / Eva-Sabine Zehelein, Andrea Carosso, Aida Rosende-Pérez (eds.).

Publisher

Bielefeld : Transcipt Verlag, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Culture & theory ; volume 221

Culture & theory ; v. 221.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Zehelein, Eva-Sabine, 1974- editor.

Carosso, Andrea, editor.

Rosende-Pérez, Aida, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-3564