| Description |
1 online resource (213 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Culture & theory ; volume 221
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Culture & theory ; v. 221.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction : family in crisis? : what crossing borders and crossing narratives tell us about the state of the family (today) / Eva-Sabine Zehelein -- Long-term impact of growing up poor - the Italian case / Chiara Saraceno -- Family change and welfare reform in the United States since the 1970s / Maurizio Vaudagna -- Patrimonial benefits arising from family crises / Antonio Legerén-Molina -- Multiparentality and new structures of family relationship / Josep Ferrer-Riba -- Assisted reproductive technologies and lesbian families / Gloria Álvarez Bernardo -- "He's not family" : family between genetic essentialism and social parenthood in MTV's docu-diary Generation cryo (2013) / Eva-Sabine Zehelein -- Narrative ethics in HBO's Big little lies : reframing motherhood / Virginia Pignagnoli -- (De)constructing gender and family roles in Helen Simpson's short stories / Margarita Navarro Pérez -- Black orphans, adoption, and labor in antebellum American literature / Sonia Di Loreto -- Anne Frank, Franz Kafka and Charles Lindbergh "at the kitchen table in Newark" : Philip Roth's autofictional holocaust / Alice Balestrino -- Family crises on the frontiers : nation, gender, and belonging in US television westerns / Brigitte Georgi-Findlay -- Cinematic violence and ideological transgression : the family crisis in the 1977 horror film The hills have eyes / Lee Herrmann -- Kinship at the margins : punk-rock modes of (dis)association / Stefano Morello -- Donald the family planner : how Disney embraced population control / Andrea Carosso -- Of Turkish women and other foreigners : family planning and guest workers in 1980s West Germany / Claudia Roesch -- Closing remarks - by a family lawyer / Anatol Dutta. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Families.
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Families. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Zehelein, Eva-Sabine, 1974- editor.
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Carosso, Andrea, 1958- editor.
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Rosende-Pérez, Aida, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Family in crisis? Bielefeld : Transcipt Verlag, [2020] 9783837650617 (OCoLC)1156331346 |
| ISBN |
9783839450611 (electronic book) |
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3839450616 (electronic book) |
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9783837650617 |
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3837650618 |
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