Skeletons in the closet : a sociological analysis of family conflicts / Aysan Sev'er and Jan E. Trost, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sevʾer, Aysan, 1945- editor.

Trost, Jan, 1935- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families.

Dysfunctional families.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Family conflict has traditionally been studied by researchers who are at a safe intellectual distance from the families under their study. In Skeletons in the Closet, and in line with feminist research methodologies, the hierarchical distance between researcher and subject is broken down. All of the contributors to this volume are academics, and all are closely related to the families they write about. Skeletons in the Closet consists of ten essays about unresolved or unresolvable family conflicts. The contributors start from the assumption that families?whether lega

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: Opening Closets, Rattling Family Skeletons: What Will They Say?; 1 A Sudden Death and the Long-Term Fragmentation of a Family; 2 Grandmother and Grandson; 3 Rupture and Repair: The Cascading Effects of Mental Illness on a Family of Innocents; 4 "Not My Happy Ending": A Family Struggle to Define Roles in a Challenging Time; 5 My Sisters Are the Problem: Sibling Struggles over Power and Identity in Relation to Caring for an Aging Parent; 6 Sitting at the Steps of Hope, Love, and Hospitality

7 A Gay Actor with Multiple Scripts: Impression Management Strategies to Comply with Traditional Chinese Family Norms8 Noises and Unwanted Odours in Old Closets?; 9 A Brother No Longer: A Real Story of Family Dysfunction and Abuse; 10 Female Excommunicated: A Life Course and Family in Conflict with Norms and Tradition; Conclusion: Strategies That Work and That Fail to Work; Appendix; About the Editors

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781299313361

1299313361

9781554583188

1554583187

OCLC:

781464343